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Lifetime leisure music exposure associated with increased frequency of tinnitus (2016)
Journal Article
Moore, D. R., Zobay, O., Mackinnon, R. C., Whitmer, W. M., & Akeroyd, M. A. (2017). Lifetime leisure music exposure associated with increased frequency of tinnitus. Hearing Research, 347, 18-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2016.10.030

Tinnitus has been linked to noise exposure, a common form of which is listening to music as a leisure activity. The relationship between tinnitus and type and duration of music exposure is not well understood. We conducted an internet-based populatio... Read More about Lifetime leisure music exposure associated with increased frequency of tinnitus.

Spatial hearing and hearing aids (2016)
Book Chapter
Akeroyd, M. A., & Whitmer, W. M. (2016). Spatial hearing and hearing aids. In G. R. Popelka, B. C. Moore, R. R. Fay, & A. N. Popper (Eds.), Hearing aids. Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33036-5_7

The questions of whether hearing-impaired listeners are also impaired for the localization of sounds and what benefits hearing aids can provide are important for understanding the wider effects of hearing impairment. We review here 29 studies publis... Read More about Spatial hearing and hearing aids.

Hearing aid validation (2016)
Book Chapter
Whitmer, W. M., Wright-Whyte, K. F., Holman, J. A., & Akeroyd, M. A. (2016). Hearing aid validation. In G. R. Popelka, B. C. Moore, R. R. Fay, & A. N. Popper (Eds.), Hearing aids. Springer Science+Business Media

Validation provides quality assurance that a hearing aid wearer’s needs are being met—that the solution meets not only their technical requirements (i.e., verification) but also their requirements for everyday communication. In the past 50 years, the... Read More about Hearing aid validation.

On detectable and meaningful speech-intelligibility benefits (2016)
Journal Article
Whitmer, W. M., McShefferty, D., & Akeroyd, M. A. (in press). On detectable and meaningful speech-intelligibility benefits. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 894, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25474-6_47

The most important parameter that affects the ability to hear and understand speech in the presence of background noise is the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Despite decades of research in speech intelligibility, it is not currently known how much impr... Read More about On detectable and meaningful speech-intelligibility benefits.

The just meaningful difference in speech-to-noise ratio (2016)
Journal Article
McShefferty, D., Whitmer, W. M., & Akeroyd, M. A. (2016). The just meaningful difference in speech-to-noise ratio. Trends in Hearing, 20, https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216515626570

The speech-to-noise ratio (SNR) in an environment plays a vital role in speech communication for both normal-hearing (NH) and hearing-impaired (HI) listeners. While hearing-assistance devices attempt to deliver as favorable an SNR as possible, there... Read More about The just meaningful difference in speech-to-noise ratio.