Outputs (42)

Muddy, muddled, or muffled? Understanding the perception of audio quality in music by hearing aid users (2024)
Journal Article
Bannister, S., Greasley, A. E., Cox, T. J., Akeroyd, M. A., Barker, J., Fazenda, B., …Whitmer, W. M. (2024). Muddy, muddled, or muffled? Understanding the perception of audio quality in music by hearing aid users. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1310176

Introduction: Previous work on audio quality evaluation has demonstrated a developing convergence of the key perceptual attributes underlying judgments of quality, such as timbral, spatial and technical attributes. However, across existing research t... Read More about Muddy, muddled, or muffled? Understanding the perception of audio quality in music by hearing aid users.

What Happens When We Hear? (2023)
Journal Article
Sumner, C. J., Akeroyd, M. A., Sollini, J., & Hart, C. (in press). What Happens When We Hear?. Frontiers for Young Minds, 11, 1072364. https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2023.1072364

What happens when we hear? Where does the sound go when it enters our ears? Our ears sense the vibrations of the air and convert them into electrical signals the brain can process. But that is only the start. The brain uses tens of thousands of nerve... Read More about What Happens When We Hear?.

The impact of tinnitus on adult cochlear implant recipients: A mixed-method approach (2023)
Journal Article
Assouly, K. K., Shabbir, M., van Dijk, B., Hoare, D. J., Akeroyd, M. A., Stokroos, R. J., …Smit, A. L. (2023). The impact of tinnitus on adult cochlear implant recipients: A mixed-method approach. PLoS ONE, 18(4), Article e0284719. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284719

Background Tinnitus is a common problem in patients with a cochlear implant (CI). Between 4% and 25% of CI recipients experience a moderate to severe tinnitus handicap. However, apart from handicap scores, little is known about the real-life impact... Read More about The impact of tinnitus on adult cochlear implant recipients: A mixed-method approach.

The executive disruption model of tinnitus distress: Model validation in two independent datasets using factor score regression (2023)
Journal Article
Clarke, N. A., Akeroyd, M. A., Henshaw, H., Hall, D. A., Mohamad, W. N. W., & Hoare, D. J. (2023). The executive disruption model of tinnitus distress: Model validation in two independent datasets using factor score regression. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, Article 1006349. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1006349

This study presents the executive disruption model (EDM) of tinnitus distress and subsequently validates it statistically using two independent datasets (the Construction Dataset: n = 96 and the Validation Dataset: n = 200). The conceptual EDM was fi... Read More about The executive disruption model of tinnitus distress: Model validation in two independent datasets using factor score regression.

Inferring the basis of binaural detection with a modified autoencoder (2023)
Journal Article
Smith, S., Sollini, J., & Akeroyd, M. A. (2023). Inferring the basis of binaural detection with a modified autoencoder. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17, Article 1000079. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1000079

The binaural system utilizes interaural timing cues to improve the detection of auditory signals presented in noise. In humans, the binaural mechanisms underlying this phenomenon cannot be directly measured and hence remain contentious. As an alterna... Read More about Inferring the basis of binaural detection with a modified autoencoder.

The long-term impacts of hearing loss, tinnitus and poor balance on the quality of life of people living with and beyond cancer after platinum-based chemotherapy: a literature review (2023)
Journal Article
Phillips, O., Baguley, D., Pearson, S., & Akeroyd, M. A. (2023). The long-term impacts of hearing loss, tinnitus and poor balance on the quality of life of people living with and beyond cancer after platinum-based chemotherapy: a literature review. Journal of Cancer Survivorship, 17(1), 40-58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11764-022-01314-9

Purpose: To elucidate the long-term impacts of hearing loss, tinnitus and balance in people living with and beyond cancer (LWBC) treated with platinum-based chemotherapy (PBCT). Methods: A literature search was conducted between March and June 2022 u... Read More about The long-term impacts of hearing loss, tinnitus and poor balance on the quality of life of people living with and beyond cancer after platinum-based chemotherapy: a literature review.

Dataset of British English speech recordings for psychoacoustics and speech processing research: The clarity speech corpus (2022)
Journal Article
Graetzer, S., Akeroyd, M. A., Barker, J., Cox, T. J., Culling, J. F., Naylor, G., …Viveros-Muñoz, R. (2022). Dataset of British English speech recordings for psychoacoustics and speech processing research: The clarity speech corpus. Data in Brief, 41, Article 107951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.107951

This paper presents the Clarity Speech Corpus, a publicly available, forty speaker British English speech dataset. The corpus was created for the purpose of running listening tests to gauge speech intelligibility and quality in the Clarity Project, w... Read More about Dataset of British English speech recordings for psychoacoustics and speech processing research: The clarity speech corpus.

Tinnitus prevalence in Europe: a multi-country cross-sectional population study (2021)
Journal Article
Biswas, R., Lugo, A., Akeroyd, M., Schlee, W., Gallus, S., & Hall, D. (2022). Tinnitus prevalence in Europe: a multi-country cross-sectional population study. Lancet Regional Health – Europe, 12, Article 100250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2021.100250

Background Tinnitus prevalence studies report large variability across countries that might be due to inconsistent research methods. Our study aimed to report a single Pan-European estimate for tinnitus prevalence and investigate the effect of indiv... Read More about Tinnitus prevalence in Europe: a multi-country cross-sectional population study.

The Utility of Economic Measures to Quantify the Burden of Tinnitus in Affected Individuals: A Scoping Review (2021)
Journal Article
Daoud, E., Caimino, C., Akeroyd, M. A., Noreña, A. J., & Baguley, D. M. (2022). The Utility of Economic Measures to Quantify the Burden of Tinnitus in Affected Individuals: A Scoping Review. PharmacoEconomics - Open, 6, 21-32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41669-021-00273-8

Background and objectives Tinnitus is a chronic subjective condition that impacts patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and requires multidisciplinary interventions. In health economics, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) and willingness... Read More about The Utility of Economic Measures to Quantify the Burden of Tinnitus in Affected Individuals: A Scoping Review.

Multiple spatial reference frames underpin perceptual recalibration to audio-visual discrepancies (2021)
Journal Article
Watson, D. M., Akeroyd, M. A., Roach, N. W., & Webb, B. S. (2021). Multiple spatial reference frames underpin perceptual recalibration to audio-visual discrepancies. PLoS ONE, 16(5), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251827

In dynamic multisensory environments, the perceptual system corrects for discrepancies arising between modalities. For instance, in the ventriloquism aftereffect (VAE), spatial disparities introduced between visual and auditory stimuli lead to a perc... Read More about Multiple spatial reference frames underpin perceptual recalibration to audio-visual discrepancies.

A set of equations for numerically calculating the interaural level difference in the horizontal plane (2021)
Journal Article
Akeroyd, M. A., Firth, J., Graetzer, S., & Smith, S. (2021). A set of equations for numerically calculating the interaural level difference in the horizontal plane. JASA Express Letters, 1(4), Article 044402. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0004261

The variation of interaural level difference (ILD) with direction and frequency is particularly complex and convoluted. The purpose of this work was to determine a set of parametric equations that can be used to calculate ILDs continuously at any val... Read More about A set of equations for numerically calculating the interaural level difference in the horizontal plane.

Associations Between Hearing and Cognitive Abilities From Childhood to Middle Age: The National Child Development Study 1958 (2021)
Journal Article
Okely, J. A., Akeroyd, M. A., & Deary, I. J. (2021). Associations Between Hearing and Cognitive Abilities From Childhood to Middle Age: The National Child Development Study 1958. Trends in Hearing, 25, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/23312165211053707

Previous cross-sectional findings indicate that hearing and cognitive abilities are positively correlated in childhood, adulthood, and older age. We used an unusually valuable longitudinal dataset from a single-year birth cohort study, the National C... Read More about Associations Between Hearing and Cognitive Abilities From Childhood to Middle Age: The National Child Development Study 1958.

Associations Between Subjective Tinnitus and Cognitive Performance: Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses (2020)
Journal Article
Clarke, N. A., Henshaw, H., Akeroyd, M. A., Adams, B., & Hoare, D. J. (2020). Associations Between Subjective Tinnitus and Cognitive Performance: Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses. Trends in Hearing, 24, https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216520918416

Tinnitus is the perception of sound in the absence of a corresponding external sound source, and bothersome tinnitus has been linked to poorer cognitive performance. This review comprehensively quantifies the association between tinnitus and differen... Read More about Associations Between Subjective Tinnitus and Cognitive Performance: Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses.

Longitudinal associations between hearing loss and general cognitive ability: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 (2019)
Journal Article
Okely, J. A., Akeroyd, M. A., Allerhand, M., Starr, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2019). Longitudinal associations between hearing loss and general cognitive ability: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. Psychology and Aging, 34(6), 766-779. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000385

Hearing impairment is associated with poorer cognitive function in later life. We tested for the potential contribution of childhood cognitive ability to this relationship. Childhood cognitive ability is strongly related to cognitive function in olde... Read More about Longitudinal associations between hearing loss and general cognitive ability: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936.

Distinct mechanisms govern recalibration to audio-visual discrepancies in remote and recent history (2019)
Journal Article
Watson, D. M., Akeroyd, M. A., Roach, N. W., & Webb, B. S. (2019). Distinct mechanisms govern recalibration to audio-visual discrepancies in remote and recent history. Scientific Reports, 9, Article 8513. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-44984-9

To maintain perceptual coherence, the brain corrects for discrepancies between the senses. If, for example, lights are consistently offset from sounds, representations of auditory space are remapped to reduce this error (spatial recalibration). While... Read More about Distinct mechanisms govern recalibration to audio-visual discrepancies in remote and recent history.

Standardized questions in English for estimating tinnitus prevalence and severity, hearing difficulty and usage of healthcare resources, and their translation into 11 European languages (2019)
Journal Article
Biswas, R., Lugo, A., Gallus, S., Akeroyd, M. A., & Hall, D. A. (2019). Standardized questions in English for estimating tinnitus prevalence and severity, hearing difficulty and usage of healthcare resources, and their translation into 11 European languages. Hearing Research, 377, 330-338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2019.02.008

INTRODUCTION: Prevalence estimates depend largely on the nature of the question asked to define the presence of the health condition, and the literature on the population burden of tinnitus and hearing difficulties is no different in this respect. Th... Read More about Standardized questions in English for estimating tinnitus prevalence and severity, hearing difficulty and usage of healthcare resources, and their translation into 11 European languages.

Hearing in Adults: A Digital Reprint of the Main Report From the MRC National Study of Hearing (2019)
Journal Article
Akeroyd, M. A., Browning, G. G., Davis, A. C., & Haggard, M. P. (2019). Hearing in Adults: A Digital Reprint of the Main Report From the MRC National Study of Hearing. Trends in Hearing, 23, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216519887614

© The Author(s) 2019. The 1011-page book, Hearing in Adults, published in 1995, contains the fullest report of the United Kingdom’s Medical Research Council National Study of Hearing. It was designed to determine the prevalence and distribution in Gr... Read More about Hearing in Adults: A Digital Reprint of the Main Report From the MRC National Study of Hearing.

Association between subjective tinnitus and cognitive performance: protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis (2018)
Journal Article
Clarke, N. A., Akeroyd, M. A., Henshaw, H., & Hoare, D. J. (2018). Association between subjective tinnitus and cognitive performance: protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open, 8(8), Article e023700. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023700

Introduction Subjective tinnitus is very common and has a number of comorbid associations including depression, sleep disturbance and concentration difficulties. Concentration difficulties may be observable in people with tinnitus through poorer... Read More about Association between subjective tinnitus and cognitive performance: protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.

A data-driven synthesis of research evidence for domains of hearing loss, as reported by adults with hearing loss and their communication partners (2017)
Journal Article
Vas, V., Akeroyd, M. A., & Hall, D. A. (in press). A data-driven synthesis of research evidence for domains of hearing loss, as reported by adults with hearing loss and their communication partners. Trends in Hearing, 21, https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216517734088

A number of assessment tools exist to evaluate the impact of hearing loss, with little consensus among researchers as to either preference or psychometric adequacy. The item content of hearing loss assessment tools should seek to capture the impact o... Read More about A data-driven synthesis of research evidence for domains of hearing loss, as reported by adults with hearing loss and their communication partners.

Influence of microphone housing on the directional response of piezoelectric MEMS microphones inspired by Ormia ochracea (2017)
Journal Article
Bauer, R., Zhang, Y., Jackson, J. C., Whitmer, W. M., Brimijoin, W. O., Akeroyd, M. A., …Windmill, J. F. (2017). Influence of microphone housing on the directional response of piezoelectric MEMS microphones inspired by Ormia ochracea. IEEE Sensors Journal, 17(17), 5529 - 5536. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2017.2729619

The influence of custom microphone housings on the acoustic directionality and frequency response of a multi-band bio-inspired MEMS microphone is presented. The 3.2mm by 1.7mm piezoelectric MEMS microphone, fabricated by a cost-effective multi-user p... Read More about Influence of microphone housing on the directional response of piezoelectric MEMS microphones inspired by Ormia ochracea.

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.

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.

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.

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.

International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology (ICRA) recommendations for the construction of multilingual speech tests: ICRA Working Group on Multilingual Speech Tests (2015)
Journal Article
Akeroyd, M. A., Arlinger, S., Bentler, R. A., Boothroyd, A., Dillier, N., Dreschler, W. A., …Kollmeier, B. (2015). International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology (ICRA) recommendations for the construction of multilingual speech tests: ICRA Working Group on Multilingual Speech Tests. International Journal of Audiology, 54(Sup. 2), 17-22. https://doi.org/10.3109/14992027.2015.1030513

Objective: To provide guidelines for the development of two types of closed-set speech-perception tests that can be applied and interpreted in the same way across languages. The guidelines cover the digit triplet and the matrix sentence tests that ar... Read More about International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology (ICRA) recommendations for the construction of multilingual speech tests: ICRA Working Group on Multilingual Speech Tests.

The just-noticeable difference in speech-to-noise ratio (2015)
Journal Article
McShefferty, D., Whitmer, W. M., & Akeroyd, M. A. (2015). The just-noticeable difference in speech-to-noise ratio. Trends in Hearing, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216515572316

Just-noticeable differences (JNDs) have been measured for various features of sounds, but despite its importance to communication, there is no benchmark for what is a just-noticeable—and possibly meaningful—difference in speech-to-noise ratio (SNR).... Read More about The just-noticeable difference in speech-to-noise ratio.

Distractions during critical phases of anaesthesia for caesarean section: an observational study (2014)
Journal Article
Jenkins, A., Wilkinson, J. V., Akeroyd, M. A., & Broom, M. A. (2015). Distractions during critical phases of anaesthesia for caesarean section: an observational study. Anaesthesia, 70(5), 543-548. doi:10.1111/anae.12979

Aviation's 'sterile cockpit' rule holds that distractions on the flight deck should be kept at a minimum during critical phases of flight. To assess current practice at comparable points during obstetric regional anaesthesia, we measured ambient nois... Read More about Distractions during critical phases of anaesthesia for caesarean section: an observational study.

An overview of the major phenomena of the localization of sound sources by normal-hearing, hearing-impaired, and aided listeners (2014)
Journal Article
Akeroyd, M. A. (2014). An overview of the major phenomena of the localization of sound sources by normal-hearing, hearing-impaired, and aided listeners. Trends in Hearing, 18, https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216514560442

Localizing a sound source requires the auditory system to determine its direction and its distance. In general, hearing-impaired listeners do less well in experiments measuring localization performance than normal-hearing listeners, and hearing aids... Read More about An overview of the major phenomena of the localization of sound sources by normal-hearing, hearing-impaired, and aided listeners.

The moving minimum audible angle is smaller during self motion than during source motion (2014)
Journal Article
Brimijoin, W. O., & Akeroyd, M. A. (2014). The moving minimum audible angle is smaller during self motion than during source motion. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 8, Article 273. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00273

We are rarely perfectly still: our heads rotate in three axes and move in three dimensions, constantly varying the spectral and binaural cues at the ear drums. In spite of this motion, static sound sources in the world are typically perceived as stab... Read More about The moving minimum audible angle is smaller during self motion than during source motion.

The effect of hearing aid microphone mode on performance in an auditory orienting task (2014)
Journal Article
Brimijoin, W. O., Whitmer, W. M., McShefferty, D., & Akeroyd, M. A. (2014). The effect of hearing aid microphone mode on performance in an auditory orienting task. Ear and Hearing, 35(5), Article e204-e212. https://doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0000000000000053

OBJECTIVES: Although directional microphones on a hearing aid provide a signal-to-noise ratio benefit in a noisy background, the amount of benefit is dependent on how close the signal of interest is to the front of the user. It is assumed that whe... Read More about The effect of hearing aid microphone mode on performance in an auditory orienting task.

Variations in the slope of the psychometric functions for speech intelligibility: a systematic survey (2014)
Journal Article
MacPherson, A., & Akeroyd, M. A. (2014). Variations in the slope of the psychometric functions for speech intelligibility: a systematic survey. Trends in Hearing, 18, https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216514537722

Although many studies have looked at the effects of different listening conditions on the intelligibility of speech, their analyses have often concentrated on changes to a single value on the psychometric function, namely, the threshold. Far less com... Read More about Variations in the slope of the psychometric functions for speech intelligibility: a systematic survey.

The perception of apparent auditory source width in hearing-impaired adults (2014)
Journal Article
Whitmer, W. M., Seeber, B. U., & Akeroyd, M. A. (2014). The perception of apparent auditory source width in hearing-impaired adults. Nature Energy, 135(6), https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4875575

In a previous study [Whitmer, Seeber and Akeroyd, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 132, 369-379 (2012)], it was demonstrated that older hearing-impaired (HI) listeners produced visual sketches of headphone-presented noises that were insensitive to changes in inte... Read More about The perception of apparent auditory source width in hearing-impaired adults.

A method for measuring the intelligibility of uninterrupted, continuous speech (2014)
Journal Article
MacPherson, A., & Akeroyd, M. A. (2014). A method for measuring the intelligibility of uninterrupted, continuous speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 135(3), 1027-1030. doi:10.1121/1.4863657

Speech-in-noise tests commonly use short, discrete sentences as representative samples of everyday speech. These tests cannot, however, fully represent the added demands of understanding ongoing, linguistically complex speech. Using a new monitoring... Read More about A method for measuring the intelligibility of uninterrupted, continuous speech.

Proposed norms for the Glasgow hearing-aid benefit profile (Ghabp) questionnaire (2014)
Journal Article
Whitmer, W. M., Howell, P., & Akeroyd, M. A. (2014). Proposed norms for the Glasgow hearing-aid benefit profile (Ghabp) questionnaire. International Journal of Audiology, 53(5), 345-351. https://doi.org/10.3109/14992027.2013.876110

Objective: To form a normative set of responses to the GHABP questionnaire from a large regional dataset. Design: Participants were asked to rate their hearing disability, handicap, hearing-aid (HA) use, HA benefit, HA satisfaction, and residual (aid... Read More about Proposed norms for the Glasgow hearing-aid benefit profile (Ghabp) questionnaire.

Amplification with hearing aids for patients with tinnitus and co-existing hearing loss (2014)
Journal Article
Hoare, D. J., Edmondson-Jones, M., Sereda, M., Akeroyd, M. A., & Hall, D. (2014). Amplification with hearing aids for patients with tinnitus and co-existing hearing loss. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 1, doi:10.1002/14651858.CD010151.pub2

Estimates of the number of adults in England, Wales, and Scotland with a hearing loss (2013)
Journal Article
Akeroyd, M. A., Foreman, K., & Holman, J. A. (2014). Estimates of the number of adults in England, Wales, and Scotland with a hearing loss. International Journal of Audiology, 53(1), 60-61. https://doi.org/10.3109/14992027.2013.850539

A factor analysis of the SSQ (Speech, Spatial, and Qualities of Hearing Scale) (2013)
Journal Article
Akeroyd, M. A., Guy, F. H., Harrison, D. L., & Suller, S. L. (2014). A factor analysis of the SSQ (Speech, Spatial, and Qualities of Hearing Scale). International Journal of Audiology, 53(2), https://doi.org/10.3109/14992027.2013.824115

OBJECTIVE: The speech, spatial, and qualities of hearing questionnaire (SSQ) is a self-report test of auditory disability. The 49 items ask how well a listener would do in many complex listening situations illustrative of real life. The scores on... Read More about A factor analysis of the SSQ (Speech, Spatial, and Qualities of Hearing Scale).