Improving hearing aid fitting using the speech-evoked auditory brainstem response

Author

Dajani, Hilmi R. ; Heffernan, Brian P. ; Giguere, Christian

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

fYear

2013

fDate

3-7 July 2013

Firstpage

2812

Lastpage

2815

Abstract

Measuring brain responses to speech may help improve the process of hearing aid fitting, especially in young children. Speech-evoked auditory brainstem responses (sABR) may be particularly useful because they provide a spectro-temporal representation of auditory neural activity in response to speech. However, use of the sABR in evaluating hearing aid performance has not been explored. This paper reviews recent work on measuring brain responses to speech, illustrates how sABR can provide insights into internal auditory processing, and proposes ways in which these responses may be used to improve hearing aid fitting.

Keywords

auditory evoked potentials; brain; hearing aids; medical signal processing; neurophysiology; speech; auditory neural activity; brain response measurement; hearing aid fitting; internal auditory processing; spectrotemporal representation; speech-evoked auditory brainstem response; young children; Auditory system; Educational institutions; Fitting; Harmonic analysis; Hearing aids; Signal to noise ratio; Speech;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Osaka

ISSN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610125

Filename

6610125