Ear and Hearing

Current Issue

November/December 2018 - Volume 39 - Issue 6

Editor-in-Chief: Brenda M. Ryals, PhD
ISSN: 0196-0202
Online ISSN: 1538-4667
Frequency: 6 issues / year
Ranking: Otorhinolaryngology 2/42
Audiology & Speech Language Pathology 1/25
Impact Factor: 3.120

Published Ahead-of-Print

Development of the Cochlear Implant Quality of Life Item Bank

Objectives: Functional outcomes following cochlear implantation have traditionally been focused on word and sentence recognition, which, although important, d...

How Do You Deal With Uncertainty? Cochlear Implant Users Differ in the Dynamics of Lexical Processing of Noncanonical Inputs

Objectives: Work in normal-hearing (NH) adults suggests that spoken language processing involves coping with ambiguity. Even a clearly spoken word contains br...

Medical Referral Patterns and Etiologies for Children With Mild-to-Severe Hearing Loss

Objectives: To (1) identify the etiologies and risk factors of the patient cohort and determine the degree to which they reflected the incidence for children ...

A New Speech, Spatial, and Qualities of Hearing Scale Short-Form: Factor, Cluster, and Comparative Analyses

Objectives: The objective of this work was to build a 15-item short-form of the Speech Spatial and Qualities of Hearing Scale (SSQ) that maintains the three-f...

The Influence of Stimulus Repetition Rate on Tone-Evoked Post-Auricular Muscle Response (PAMR) Threshold

Objectives: Post-auricular muscle response (PAMR) is a large myogenic potential that can be useful in estimating behavioral hearing thresholds when the record...

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Current Issue Highlights

Systematic Review

How to Optimally Fit a Hearing Aid for Bimodal Cochlear Implant Users: A Systematic Review

Vroegop, Jantien L.; Goedegebure, André; van der Schroeff, Marc P.

Ear and Hearing. 39(6):1039-1045, November/December 2018.

Research Articles

Tinnitus, Depression, Anxiety, and Suicide in Recent Veterans: A Retrospective Analysis

Martz, Erin; Jelleberg, Chennettée; Dougherty, Deborah D.; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(6):1046-1056, November/December 2018.

No Reliable Association Between Recreational Noise Exposure and Threshold Sensitivity, Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emission Amplitude, or Word-in-Noise Performance in a College Student Population

Le Prell, Colleen G.; Siburt, Hannah W.; Lobarinas, Edward; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(6):1057-1074, November/December 2018.

Optimizing Clinical Interpretation of Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions in Infants

Blankenship, Chelsea M.; Hunter, Lisa L.; Keefe, Douglas H.; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(6):1075-1090, November/December 2018.

Speech Recognition Abilities in Normal-Hearing Children 4 to 12 Years of Age in Stationary and Interrupted Noise

Koopmans, Wiepke J. A.; Goverts, S. Theo; Smits, Cas

Ear and Hearing. 39(6):1091-1103, November/December 2018.

School-Age Hearing Screening Based on Speech-in-Noise Perception Using the Digit Triplet Test

Denys, Sam; Hofmann, Michael; Luts, Heleen; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(6):1104-1115, November/December 2018.

Development of a Diagnostic Prediction Model for Conductive Conditions in Neonates Using Wideband Acoustic Immittance

Myers, Joshua; Kei, Joseph; Aithal, Sreedevi; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(6):1116-1135, November/December 2018.

A Dynamically Focusing Cochlear Implant Strategy Can Improve Vowel Identification in Noise

Arenberg, Julie G.; Parkinson, Wendy S.; Litvak, Leonid; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(6):1136-1145, November/December 2018.

Response Changes During Insertion of a Cochlear Implant Using Extracochlear Electrocochleography

Giardina, Christopher K.; Khan, Tatyana E.; Pulver, Stephen H.; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(6):1146-1156, November/December 2018.

Development of a Novel Bone Conduction Verification Tool Using a Surface Microphone: Validation With Percutaneous Bone Conduction Users

Hodgetts, William; Scott, Dylan; Maas, Patrick; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(6):1157-1164, November/December 2018.

Using Objective Metrics to Measure Hearing Aid Performance

Kates, James M.; Arehart, Kathryn H.; Anderson, Melinda C.; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(6):1165-1175, November/December 2018.

Visual Performance and Perception as a Target of Saccadic Strategies in Patients With Unilateral Vestibular Loss

Trinidad-Ruiz, Gabriel; Rey-Martinez, Jorge; Batuecas-Caletrio, Angel; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(6):1176-1186, November/December 2018.

Comparisons of IQ in Children With and Without Cochlear Implants: Longitudinal Findings and Associations With Language

Cejas, Ivette; Mitchell, Christine M.; Hoffman, Michael; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(6):1187-1198, November/December 2018.

Toward Optimizing VEMP: Calculating VEMP Inhibition Depth With a Generic Template

Noij, Kimberley S.; van Tilburg, Mark J.; Herrmann, Barbara S.; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(6):1199-1206, November/December 2018.

Evaluation of Speed and Accuracy of Next-Generation Auditory Steady State Response and Auditory Brainstem Response Audiometry in Children With Normal Hearing and Hearing Loss

Sininger, Yvonne S.; Hunter, Lisa L.; Hayes, Deborah; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(6):1207-1223, November/December 2018.

Head Movements Allow Listeners Bilaterally Implanted With Cochlear Implants to Resolve Front-Back Confusions

Pastore, M. Torben; Natale, Sarah J.; Yost, William A.; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(6):1224-1231, November/December 2018.

Brief Report

Association Between Vestibular Vertigo and Motor Vehicle Accidents: Data From the 2016 National Health Interview Survey

Wei, Eric X.; Agrawal, Yuri

Ear and Hearing. 39(6):1232-1235, November/December 2018.

Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: An Affront to Scientific Inquiry Re: Moore, D. R. (2018) Editorial: Auditory Processing Disorder, Ear Hear, 39, 617–620

Iliadou, Vasiliki (Vivian); Chermak, Gail D.; Bamiou, Doris-Eva; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(6):1236-1242, November/December 2018.

Letter to the Editor: Comments on the Ear and Hearing Ban on Certain Auditory Processing Disorder Articles Re: Moore, D. R. (2018) Editorial: Auditory Processing Disorder, Ear Hear, 39, 617–620

Keith, William J.; Keith, Robert W.; Purdy, Suzanne C.

Ear and Hearing. 39(6):1242-1243, November/December 2018.

Response to Iliadou et al. 2018 and Keith et al. 2018

Ryals, Brenda M.

Ear and Hearing. 39(6):1243-1244, November/December 2018.

Important Update

Ear & Hearing has achieved an Impact Factor of 3.120, as reported in the recently announced 2017 Journal Citation Reports. This places Ear and Hearing FIRST out of twenty-five titles indexed in the Audiology & Speech-Language Category and SECOND out of forty-two titles in Otorhinolaryngology Category.

The Editor and the American Auditory Society would like to thank our contributors and reviewers for their excellent contributions to Ear and Hearing, providing our readers with leading-edge research in the audiological sciences.