Ear and Hearing

Current Issue

September/October 2018 - Volume 39 - Issue 5

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

Effect of Probe-Tone Frequency on Ipsilateral and Contralateral Electrical Stapedius Reflex Measurement in Children With Cochlear Implants

Objectives: The upper loudness limit of electrical stimulation in cochlear implant patients is sometimes set using electrically elicited stapedius reflex thre...

The Effects of Dynamic-range Automatic Gain Control on Sentence Intelligibility With a Speech Masker in Simulated Cochlear Implant Listening

Objectives: “Channel-linked” and “multi-band” front-end automatic gain control (AGC) were examined as alternatives to single-band, channel-unlinked AGC in sim...

Air- and Bone-Conducted Sources of Feedback With an Active Middle Ear Implant

Objectives: Active middle ear implants (AMEI) have been used to treat hearing loss in patients for whom conventional hearing aids are unsuccessful for varied ...

Hearing and Auditory Processing Abilities in Primary School Children with Learning Difficulties

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate hearing and auditory processing ability in primary school children with learning difficulties (LD). Design: A n...

Residual Cochlear Function in Adults and Children Receiving Cochlear Implants: Correlations With Speech Perception Outcomes

Objectives: Variability in speech perception outcomes with cochlear implants remains largely unexplained. Recently, electrocochleography, or measurements of c...

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Current Issue Highlights

Research Articles

Using Thresholds in Noise to Identify Hidden Hearing Loss in Humans

Ridley, Courtney L.; Kopun, Judy G.; Neely, Stephen T.; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(5):829-844, September/October 2018.

Results in Adult Cochlear Implant Recipients With Varied Asymmetric Hearing: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Speech Recognition, Localization, and Participant Report

Firszt, Jill B.; Reeder, Ruth M.; Holden, Laura K.; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(5):845-862, September/October 2018.

Longitudinal Development of Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions in Infants With Normal Hearing

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

Ear and Hearing. 39(5):863-873, September/October 2018.

Children’s Recognition of Emotional Prosody in Spectrally Degraded Speech Is Predicted by Their Age and Cognitive Status

Tinnemore, Anna R.; Zion, Danielle J.; Kulkarni, Aditya M.; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(5):874-880, September/October 2018.

Tinnitus and Auditory Perception After a History of Noise Exposure: Relationship to Auditory Brainstem Response Measures

Bramhall, Naomi F.; Konrad-Martin, Dawn; McMillan, Garnett P.

Ear and Hearing. 39(5):881-894, September/October 2018.

The Effect of Simulated Interaural Frequency Mismatch on Speech Understanding and Spatial Release From Masking

Goupell, Matthew J.; Stoelb, Corey A.; Kan, Alan; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(5):895-905, September/October 2018.

Home Hearing Test: Within-Subjects Threshold Variability

Margolis, Robert H.; Bratt, Gene; Feeney, M. Patrick; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(5):906-909, September/October 2018.

Examination of Utricular Response Using oVEMP and Unilateral Centrifugation Rotation Testing

Zalewski, Christopher K.; Ackley, R. Steven; McCaslin, Devin L.; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(5):910-921, September/October 2018.

Social Connectedness and Perceived Listening Effort in Adult Cochlear Implant Users: A Grounded Theory to Establish Content Validity for a New Patient-Reported Outcome Measure

Hughes, Sarah E.; Hutchings, Hayley A.; Rapport, Frances L.; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(5):922-934, September/October 2018.

Developmental Effects in Masking Release for Speech-in-Speech Perception Due to a Target/Masker Sex Mismatch

Leibold, Lori J.; Buss, Emily; Calandruccio, Lauren

Ear and Hearing. 39(5):935-945, September/October 2018.

Pure-Tone Audiometry With Forward Pressure Level Calibration Leads to Clinically-Relevant Improvements in Test–Retest Reliability

Lapsley Miller, Judi A.; Reed, Charlotte M.; Robinson, Sarah R.; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(5):946-957, September/October 2018.

An Evaluation of Output Signal to Noise Ratio as a Predictor of Cochlear Implant Speech Intelligibility

Watkins, Greg D.; Swanson, Brett A.; Suaning, Gregg J.

Ear and Hearing. 39(5):958-968, September/October 2018.

The Influence of Hearing Aid Gain on Gap-Detection Thresholds for Children and Adults With Hearing Loss

Brennan, Marc A.; McCreery, Ryan W.; Buss, Emily; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(5):969-979, September/October 2018.

Word Learning in Children With Cochlear Implants: Examining Performance Relative to Hearing Peers and Relations With Age at Implantation

Pimperton, Hannah; Walker, Elizabeth A.

Ear and Hearing. 39(5):980-991, September/October 2018.

Sonority’s Effect as a Surface Cue on Lexical Speech Perception of Children With Cochlear Implants

Hamza, Yasmeen; Okalidou, Areti; Kyriafinis, George; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(5):992-1007, September/October 2018.

Evidence-Based Inclusion Criteria for Cochlear Implantation in Patients With Postlingual Deafness

Snel-Bongers, Jorien; Netten, Anouk P.; Boermans, Peter-Paul B. M.; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(5):1008-1014, September/October 2018.

Neural Activity During Mental Rotation in Deaf Signers: The Influence of Long-Term Sign Language Experience

Le, Hong-Bo; Zhang, Hui-Hong; Wu, Qiu-Lin; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(5):1015-1024, September/October 2018.

Psychometric Properties and Factor Structure of a New Scale to Measure Hyperacusis: Introducing the Inventory of Hyperacusis Symptoms

Greenberg, Benjamin; Carlos, Megan

Ear and Hearing. 39(5):1025-1034, September/October 2018.

Brief Report

A Retrospective Estimate of Ear Disease Detection Using the “Red Flags” in a Clinical Sample

Klyn, Niall A. M.; Kleindienst Robler, Samantha; Alfakir, Razan; More

Ear and Hearing. 39(5):1035-1038, September/October 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.