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Auditory compensation for head rotation is incomplete (2016)
Journal Article
Freeman, T., Culling, J., Akeroyd, M. A., & Brimijoin, W. O. (in press). Auditory compensation for head rotation is incomplete. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(2), https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000321

Hearing is confronted by a similar problem to vision when the observer moves. The image motion that is created remains ambiguous until the observer knows the velocity of eye and/or head. One way the visual system solves this problem is to use motor c... Read More about Auditory compensation for head rotation is incomplete.

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.

Domains relating to the everyday impact of hearing loss, as reported by patients or their communication partner(s): protocol for a systematic review (2016)
Journal Article
Vas, V., Akeroyd, M. A., & Hall, D. A. (2016). Domains relating to the everyday impact of hearing loss, as reported by patients or their communication partner(s): protocol for a systematic review. BMJ Open, 6(9), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011463

INTRODUCTION: Hearing loss is a highly prevalent condition that affects around 1 in 6 people in the UK alone. This number is predicted to rise by the year 2031 to a staggering 14.5 million people due to the ageing population of the UK. Currently, th... Read More about Domains relating to the everyday impact of hearing loss, as reported by patients or their communication partner(s): protocol for a systematic review.

The effects of hearing impairment, age, and hearing aids on the use of self motion for determining front/back location (2016)
Journal Article
Brimijoin, W. O., & Akeroyd, M. A. (2016). The effects of hearing impairment, age, and hearing aids on the use of self motion for determining front/back location. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 27(7), https://doi.org/10.3766/jaaa.15101

Background: There are two cues that listeners use to disambiguate the front/back location of a sound source: high-frequency spectral cues associated with the head and pinnae, and self-motion‐related binaural cues. The use of these cues can be comp... Read More about The effects of hearing impairment, age, and hearing aids on the use of self motion for determining front/back location.

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 Glasgow Bene?t Inventory: a systematic review of the use and value of an otorhinolaryngological generic patient-recorded outcome measure (2016)
Journal Article
Hendry, J., Chin, A., Swan, I. R., Akeroyd, M. A., & Browning, G. G. (2016). The Glasgow Bene?t Inventory: a systematic review of the use and value of an otorhinolaryngological generic patient-recorded outcome measure. Clinical Otolaryngology, 41(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/coa.12518

The Glasgow Benefit Inventory (GBI) is a validated, generic patient-recorded outcome measure widely used in otolaryngology to report change in quality of life post-intervention.To date, no systematic review has made (i) a quality assessment of report... Read More about The Glasgow Bene?t Inventory: a systematic review of the use and value of an otorhinolaryngological generic patient-recorded outcome measure.

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.