IHCON 2016International Hearing Aid

Research Conference

August 10 – 14, 2016

Granlibakken Conference CenterTahoe City, California

Sponsors

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National Institute on Deafnessand Other Communication Disorders

The Hearing Industry Research Consortium

MRC Institute of Hearing Research

Action on Hearing Loss

USC Tina and Rick Caruso Department ofOtolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery,

Keck School of Medicine of USCUniversity of Southern California

IHCON 2016 Team

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Technical Chairs

Peggy Nelson ● Gabrielle Saunders

Technical Co-Chairs

Torsten Dau ● Gitte Keidser

Organizational Co-Chair

Sigfrid Soli

Steering Committee

Sigfrid D. Soli, Organizational Co-ChairUniversity of Southern California, USA

Francis KukWidex, USA

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Peggy Nelson, Technical Chair (2016)University of Minnesota, USA

Sunil PuriaHarvard University and MEEI, USA

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Gabrielle Saunders, Technical Chair (2016)National Center for Rehabilitative Audiology Research, USA

Judy DubnoMedical University of South Carolina, USA

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Torsten Dau, Technical Co-Chair (2016)Danish Technical Univsity, Denmark

Wouter DreschlerAcademic Medical Center, The Netherlands

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Gitte Keidser, Technical Co-Chair (2016)National Acoustics Laboratory, Australia

Sridhar KalluriStarkey Laboratories, USA

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Laurie EisenbergUniversity of Southern California, USA

Brian MooreUniversity of Cambridge, England

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Pamela SouzaNorthwestern University, USA

Peter Blamey, Technical Chair (2014)Bionics Institute, Australia

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Sung Hwa HongSungkyunkwan University, South Korea

Kathryn Arehart, Technical Co-Chair (2014)University of Colorado, USA

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Inga HolubeJade University, Germany

Susan Scollie, Technical Co-Chair (2014)University of Western Ontario, Canada

Conference Coordinator: Barbara Serrano

Student Scholarship Recipients

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Name Affiliation Country

Zhiji Chen1..................................................West China Hospital................................................ChinaAnna Diedesch1...........................................Vanderbilt University..............................................USAGabriel Gomez1...........................................Technical University of Munich..............................GermanyRobin Gransier1..........................................University of Leuven...............................................BelgiumEric Hoover1................................................University of South Florida.....................................USAMelissa Kokx-Ryan1...................................Gallaudet University................................................USABorys Kowalewski1.....................................Technical University of Denmark...........................DenmarkJonas Lochner1...........................................Technical University of Denmark...........................DenmarkDaniel Marquardt1.....................................University of Oldenburg..........................................GermanyJulia McDowell1..........................................East Tennessee State University..............................USAJing Mi1.......................................................Boston University....................................................USAAlissa Nickerson1........................................University of Illinois................................................USANicholas Reed1............................................Johns Hopkins University........................................USAHenning Schepker1.....................................University of Oldenburg..........................................GermanyJosef Schlittenlacher1,2................................University of Cambridge.........................................EnglandJaclyn Schurman1.......................................University of Maryland............................................USAKelley Trapp1..............................................University of Washington........................................USALarissa Taylor1...........................................McMaster University...............................................CanadaMaaike Van Eeckhoutte1...........................University of Leuven...............................................BelgiumVenessa Vas1,2..............................................University of Nottingham........................................EngandEls Walravens1............................................University of Queensland........................................AustraliaMatthew Wetmore1....................................Illinois State University...........................................USANatalie Williams1,2......................................University of Nottingham........................................EnglandSeong Tak Woo1..........................................Kyungpook National University..............................South KoreaMarcin Wróblewski1..................................University of Iowa...................................................USAYuan Zhang1...............................................West China Hospital................................................ChinaMehdi Zohourian1......................................Ruhr University Bochum.........................................Germany

Student Scholarship funding is from the following sources:1 NIDCD2 Action on Hearing Loss

Daily Schedule

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Wednesday, August 10, 2016

5:00 pm Welcome Reception

6:00 pm Dinner

7:30 pm Opening Remarks

7:45 pm Keynote Address

8:30 pm Discussion

9:00 pm Social

Thursday, August 11, 2016

7:00 am Breakfast

8:00 am Morning Session A

9:30 am Poster Session

11:00 am Morning Session B

12:30 pm Lunch

5:00 pm Evening Session

7:00 pm Dinner

8:30 pm Social

Friday, August 12, 2016

7:00 am Breakfast

8:00 am Morning Session A

10:00 am Poster Session

11:30 am Morning Session B

12:50 pm Lunch

5:00 pm Evening Session

7:00 pm Dinner

8:30 pm Social

Saturday, August 13, 2016

7:00 am Breakfast

8:00 am Morning Session A

9:30 am Poster Session

11:00 am Morning Session B

12:30 pm Lunch

5:00 pm Evening Session

7:00 pm Dinner

8:30 pm Social

Sunday, August 14, 2016

7:00 am Breakfast

8:00 am Conference Concludes(check-out following breakfast)

Program Summary

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Wednesday, August 105:00 pm Reception

6:00 pm Dinner

7:30 pm Opening Remarks

7:45 pm Keynote AddressHidden hearing loss in humans: Lost or found?(Invited) Christopher Plack, Garreth Prendergast, Hannah Guest, Agnès Léger, Karolina Kluk and Kevin MunroUniversity of Manchester, United Kingdom

Thursday, August 117:00 am Breakfast

8:00 am – 9:30 am Session One: Individual DifferenesModerator: Michelle Molis

8:00 am Spectral ripple discrimination by listeners with older ears: Modeling and psychophysicsFrederick J. Gallun and Michelle R. MolisNational Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research, USA

8:30 am Predicting hearing aid outcomes with static and moving spectral-ripple sensitivityChristi Miller1, Joshua Bernstein2, Yu-Hsiang Wu3, Ruth Bentler3 and Kelly Tremblay1

1 University of Washington, USA2 Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, USA3 University of Iowa, USA

9:00 am Can cognitive capacity predict listening effort?Jeff Crukley1,2,3, Stefania Cerisano3 and Scott Watter3

1 Starkey Hearing Technologies, USA2 University of Toronto, Canada3 McMaster University, Canada

9:30 am – 11:00 am Poster Session A

11:00 am – 12:30 am Session Two: New Outcome MeasuresModerator: Gurgit Singh

11:00 am Effects of task focus on subjective ratings of speech in noise by listeners with hearing impairmentLorienne M. Jenstad1, Lise Gillen1, Gurjit Singh2,3, Anita DeLongis1 and Flora Pang1

1 University of British Columbia, Canada2 University of Toronto, Canada3 Phonak

11:30 am EEG in response to running speech: Applications in diagnostics and noise suppressionTom Francart, Jonas Vanthornhout, Lien Decruy, Neetha Das, Simon Van Eyndhoven, Alexander Bertrand and Jan WoutersUniversity of Leuven, Belgium

12:00 pm Self-adjusted time-compressed speech as a hearing aid outcome measure

(Scholar) Jaclyn Schurman1,2, Douglas Brungart2 and Sandra Gordon-Salant1

1 University of Maryland, USA2 Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, USA

12:30 pm Lunch

Free Time

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Session Three: Changing Healthcare SystemsModerator: Amyn Amlani

5:00 pm Hearing health care: Challenges and opportunities(Invited) Margaret I WallhagenUniversity of California, San Francisco, USA

5:45 pm Management of and outcomes with a commercial self-fitting hearing aidGitte Keidser and Elizabeth ConveryNational Acoustic Laboratories and the Hearing CRC, Australia

6:10 pm A novel intervention to promote help seeking for hearing lossGabrielle Saunders1, Melissa Frederick1, Claus Nielsen2, Ariane Laplante-Lévesque2 and ShienPei Silverman1

1 National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research, USA2 Eriksholm Research Center

6:35 pm Pilot exploration of comparative analysis of over-the-counter hearing devices and dispensed hearing aid using objective and subjective measures(Scholar) Nicholas S. Reed1, Nicole Polyak2, Peggy Korczak2, Sara K. Mamo1 and Frank R. Lin1

1 Johns Hopkins University, USA2 Towson University, USA

7:00 pm Dinner

8:30 pm Social w/ Poster Viewing

Friday, August 127:00 am Breakfast

8:00 am – 10:00 am Session Four: New Outcome Measures: Spatial HearingModerator: Tobias Neher

8:00 am Spatial perception beyond location(Invited) Simon CarlileStarkey Hearing Research Center, USA & University of Sydney, Australia

8:45 am Spatial sound perception with hearing aids – Examining localization, distance, width, elevation and internalization(Scholar) Gabriel Gomez, Valerie M. Hoening and Bernhard U. SeeberTechnical University of Munich, Germany

9:10 am Modeling real-world speech listening environmentsYu-Hsiang Wu, Elizabeth Stangl, Anne Welhaven and Jacob OlesonUniversity of Iowa, USA

9:35 am Validation of an ecologically valid speech-in-noise test: the AVATAR approachAnnelies Devesse, Alexander Dudek, Astrid van Wieringen and Jan WoutersKU Leuven, Belgium

10:00 am – 11:30 am Poster Session B

11:30 am – 12:50 pm Session Five: Stuart Gatehouse Lecture / Cognition and Hearing ImpairmentModerator: Virgina Best

11:30 am Can hearing aids prevent cognitive decline and dementia?(Invited) Piers Dawes

Unviersity of Manchester, England

12:10 pm Cognitive function and cognitive assessment in the older adult: Implications for hearing professionals(Invited) Natalie PhillipsConcordia University, Canada

12:50 pm Lunch

Free Time

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Session Six: Aging and EffortModerator: Kathryn Arehart

5:00 pm Hearing loss as a marker of auto-ageism in some older adults with hearing loss(Invited) Jean-Pierre Gagné1,2, Tony Leroux1,3, Martine Lagacé2,4, Martine Gendron3, Luc Dargis-Damphousse5 and Kenneth Southall2,6

1 Université de Montréal, Canada2 Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal, Canada3 Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire en réadaptation, site Institut Raymond-Dewar, Canada4 University of Ottawa, Canada5 Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada6 McGill University, Canada

5:45 pm The gate to listening effort: Investigating early stages of auditory cognitive processingMaja Serman1, Dirk Junius1, Farah I. Corona-Strauss2 and Daniel J. Strauss2,3

1 Sivantos GmbH, Germany2 Saarland University, Germany3 KeyNumerics, Germany

6:10 pm Quantifying the Fatigue Factor: Variables affecting speech-processing related fatigueBenjamin Hornsby and Daniel AshmeadVanderbilt University, USA

6:35 pm Report on the Eriksholm workshop on hearing impairment and cognitive energy: FUEL (Framework for Understanding Effortful Listening)Kathleen Pichora-Fuller1 and Sophia Kramer2

1 University of Toronto, Canada2 VU University Medical Center, Netherlands

7:00 pm Dinner

8:30 pm Social w/ Poster Viewing

Saturday, August 137:00 am Breakfast

8:00 am – 9:30 am Session Seven: New TechnologyModerator: Andrea Pittman

8:00 am A dataset for model-driven and neural-driven fitting proceduresPeter NordqvistKTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

8:30 am Automated fitting to target based on real-ear measurements: Reliability, matching accuracy and perceptual outcomesSam Denys1, Tom Francart1, Katleen De Voecht2 and Jan Wouters1

1 KU Leuven2 University Hospital Leuven

9:00 am Effect of noise and noise reduction on processing effort in hearing-impaired listenersThomas Lunner1,3 Renskje Hietkamp1, Dorothea Wendt1,2

1 Eriksholm Research Centre, Oticon A/S, Denmark2 Technical University of Denmark3 Linköping University, Sweden

9:30 am – 11:00 am Poster Session C

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Session Eight: PediatricsModerator: Daniel Rasetshwane

11:00 am The effects of amplification on perceptual and cognitive development in children(Invited) Ryan McCreeryBoys Town National Research Hospital, USA

11:40 am Developmental outcomes for early-identified children who are hard of hearing at 12 to 48 months of ageCarren J. Stika1, Laurie S. Eisenberg2, Karen C. Johnson2, Shirley C. Henning3, Dianne Hammes Ganguly2, Bethany G. Colson3 and Jean L. DesJardin4

1 San Diego State University, USA2 University of Southern California, USA3 Indiana University School of Medicine, USA4 Moravian College, USA

12:05 pm Gap detection with a prescriptive procedure in children and adults with hearing lossMarc Brennan1, Emily Buss2, Ryan McCreery1 and Walt Jesteadt1

1 Boys Town National Research Hospital, USA2 University of North Carolina, USA

12:30 pm Lunch

Free Time

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Session Nine: TinnitusModerator: Samantha Lewis

5:00 pm Tinnitus demographics, current interventions and sound therapy delivered by hearing aidsGerald PopelkaStanford University, USA

5:30 pm Treatment of primary tinnitus: Initial multi-center outcomesLiu Peng1, Zheng Yun2, Li Gang2 and He Rongping2

1 The First Affiliated Hospital of Guang Zhou Traditional Chinese Medicine University, China2 West China Hospital of Sichuan University, China

6:00 pm Hearing aids vs. combination instruments for tinnitus management: Results of two randomized controlled trialsJames A. HenryNational Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research, USA

6:30 pm Acoustic coordinated reset neuromodulation for the treatment of tinnitusPeter TassJülich Research Center, Germany

7:00 pm Dinner

8:30 pm Social w/ Poster Viewing

Sunday, August 147:00 am Breakfast

Close of Conference

Check-out following breakfast

Poster Program

Posters for Session A should be put up by 8:00 AM Thursday, August 11, and taken down after 10:00 PM Thursday, August 11, or before 7:00 AM Friday, August 12. Presenters should be at their posters from 9:30 AM – 11:00 A.M.; 8:30 PM – 10:00 P.M.

POSTER SESSION A

Thursday 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM

A1_Real-time inverse frequency compression using an iPod (Joshua M. Alexander and Jing Li)

A2_Using smartphone applications to change attitudes about amplifi-cation and hearing loss (Amyn M. Amlani, Joseph Smaldino, Donald Hayes, Brian Taylor and Erich Gessling)

A3_Real-world experience with CAM2 high frequency gain prescriptions provided with the light-driven Contact Hearing Aid (Tanya Arbogast, Brian C. J. Moore, Sunil Puria, Brent Edwards and Suzanne Carr Levy)

A4_The magic number is four, mostly: sound source enumeration in hearing-impaired adults (Michael Akeroyd, William M Whitmer, David McShefferty and Graham Naylor)

A5_Quantitative benchmarks for the evaluation of signal processing in commercial hearing devices (Kathryn Arehart, Melinda Anderson, James Kates, Ramesh Muralimanohar and Pamela Souza)

A6_Using self-directed exploration to optimize hearing aid use in a noisy environment (Dragana Barac-Cikoja, Kevin Cole, Andrea Frick and Nicole Pizappi)

A7_The use of spatial cues in understanding speech in background noise: A forensic analysis of those with hearing impairment and the role of hearing aids (Barry Bardsley and John Culling)

A8_Evaluation of the NAL Dynamic Conversations Test in listeners with hearing loss (Virginia Best, Gitte Keidser, Katrina Freeston and Jörg M. Buchholz)

A9_Self-assessment of pure-tone thresholds: A comparison of two approaches (Arthur Boothroyd, Carol Mackersie and Mark Datuin)

A10_Subjective evaluation of a low-latency supervised non-negative matrix factorization algorithm for listeners with normal and im-paired hearing (Marianna Vatti, Lars Bramsløw, Niels Henrik Pontoppi-dan, Rikke Rossing, Tom Barker and Tuomas Virtanen)

A11_A new competing voices test paradigm to test spatial effects and algorithms in hearing aids (Lars Bramsløw, Marianna Vatti, Renskje K. Hietkamp and Niels Henrik Pontoppidan)

A12_Factors influencing speech production level in real-world envi-ronments (Douglas S. Brungart, Julie Cohen, LaGuinn Sherlock and Mary Barrett)

A13_Reliability and validity of the Tinnitus Evaluation Question-naire: A clinician administered tool for assessment of tinnitus sever-ity (Chen Zhiji, Zheng Yun, Liu Peng and Sigfrid D. Soli)

A14_Comparison of binaural benefits: contralateral routing of off-side signals (CROS) hearing aids and bone-anchored hearing aids (BAHA) on patients with single-sided deafness (Eun Bith Cho, Ji Eun Choi, Sun Mi Ma, Yang-Sun Cho and Ii Joon Moon)

A15_Prevalence of minimal hearing loss in South Korea (Ji Eun Choi, Sun-Young Baek, Sun Woo Kim, Yang-Sun Cho and Il Joon Moon)

A16_Overview of a novel super power bone anchored sound proces-sor worn behind-the-ear (George Cire)

A17_Evaluation of a cross-talk cancellation method for bilateral bone-anchored hearing aids (BAHAs) (Robert Mcleod and John Culling)

A18_Proprietary hearing-aid gain prescriptions – changes over time (Karolina Smeds, Martin Dahlquist, Carsten Paludan-Müller, Josefina Larsson, Sofia Hertzman and Sara Båsjö)

A19_Speech in noise and music perception with a Microphone and Receiver in the Canal hearing aid (Jan A.P.M. de Laat, Juliët Schuering and Aeldrik Pander)

A20_Influence of hearing loss and listening effort on an objective correlate of speech intelligibility (Lien Decruy, Jonas Vanthornhout, Jan Wouters and Tom Francart)

A21_Effects of hearing aid venting and reverberation on narrow-band localization in free field: a study of young normal hearing lis-teners fit with low-gain, linear amplification (Anna C. Diedesch and G. Christopher Stecker)

A22_An alternative grading system for cochleotoxicity in adults: To-wards a ‘common language’ for grading ototoxic hearing loss (Lauren Dillard, Lebogang Ramma, Primrose Nhokwara and Lucretia Peterson)

A23_Critical factors in hearing aid selection and evaluation: audio-logical characteristics, self-report profiles, and hearing aid proper-ties. (Wouter A. Dreschler, Inge de Ronde-Brons, Monique Boymans and Wim Soede)

A24_A light-driven hearing aid that improves wide-bandwidth audi-bility via direct eardrum drive (Brent Edwards, Suzanne Carr Levy and Sunil Puria)

A25_Binaural bandwidth-adaptive dynamic compression (Dirk Oet-ting, Volker Hohmann, Jens-E. Appell, Birger Kollmeier and Stephan D. Ewert)

A26_Grid - a fast threshold tracking procedure (Michal Fereczkowski, Ewen MacDonald and Torsten Dau)

A27_Can binaural squelch be induced purely by interaural level differences? (Benjamin Dieudonné and Tom Francart)

A28_Is speech comprehension predetermined: Insights from phase-locked neural oscillations (Robin Gransier, Astrid van Wieringen and Jan Wouters)

A29_Deep Neural Network-based fitting prescription for hearing aids: Method and primary evaluation (Chiho Haruta, Yuki Kamimura, Masahiro Sunohara and Makoto Tateno)

A30_The effect of dynamic range compression on spatial perception in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners (Henrik Gert Hassager, Alan Wiinberg, Pernille Holtegaard, Jesper Udesen and Torsten Dau)

A31_Study on the potential of different sound field synthesis techniques for the evaluation of hearing aids in an acoustically treated laboratory environment (Karim Helwani, Buye Xu and Tao Zhang)

A32_Hearing aid evaluation using complex acoustic scenarios (Giso Grimm, Maartje Hendrikse, Angela Josupeit, Michael Buschermöhle and Volker Hohmann)

A33_Adaptive scaling of listening effort for speech in noise (Melanie Krueger, Inga Holube, Thomas Brand and Michael Schulte)

A34_A novel approach to behavioral assessment in dynamic acoustic environments (Eric C. Hoover, Erol J. Ozmeral, Patricia E. Gabbidon and David A. Eddins)

A35_A BSII-based Guidance System for Hearing Aid Fine Tuning (Motokuni Itoh, Yuki Kawai, Koichiro Mizushima)

A36_Sensitivity of the Speech Intelligibility Index to the Assumed Dynamic Range (In-Ki Jin, James M. Kates, Kyung-Ju Lee and Kathryn H. Arehart)

A37_Deep neural network-based fitting prescription for hearing aids: The verification of the proposed system with Japanese fitting records (Yuki Kamimura, Chiho Haruta, Masahiro Sunohara and Makoto Tateno)

A38_Improving externalization in remote microphone systems (James M. Kates, Kathryn H. Arehart, Ramesh Kumar Muralimanohar)

A39_Attenuating the feedback pressure of a light-activated hearing device to allow microphone placement at the ear canal entrance (Morteza Khaleghi and Sunil Puria)

A40_A randomized controlled trial of the clinical effectiveness of an at-home auditory training program (Larry Humes, Anna Kiener, Dana Kinney, Sara Rogers, Tara Quigley and Kimberly Skinner)

A41_Unaided and aided speech recognition performance Evaluation across languages with hearing impaired patients using multilingual matrix sentence tests (Birger Kollmeier, Melanie A. Zokoll, Michael Buschermöhle, Anna Warzybok and Kirsten C. Wagener)

A42_Assessing the evidence for the effectiveness of alternative listen-ing devices and hearing aids for adults with hearing loss: Two sys-tematic reviews (David Maidment and Melanie Ferguson)

A43_Performance comparison of two binaural speech enhancement algorithms for hearing aids (Daniel Marquardt, Elior Hadad, Wen-Qiang Pu, Simon Doclo, Sharon Gannot, Zhi-Quan Luo, Ivo Merks and Tao Zhang)

A44_Advances in environment classification for hearing aids (Martin F. McKinney, Matt Kleffner, John Ellison and Tao Zhang)

A45_Neural correlates of speech clarity as affected by hearing aid delay for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners (Martin F. McKinney, Yang Zhang, Luodi Yu, Tess Koerner, Tao Zhang and Peggy Nelson)

A46_Discrepancies between self-reported hearing difficulties and hearing impairment diagnosed by audiometry (Il Joon Moon, Sooky-oung Woo, Yang-Sun Cho)

A47_Investigating candidacy for different bilateral directional pro-cessing schemes (Tobias Neher, Kirsten C. Wagener and Matthias Latzel)

A48_Low delay scheme of online independent vector analysis for hearing aids (Masahiro Sunohara, Chiho Haruta and Nobutaka Ono)

Posters for Session B should be put up by 8:00 AM Friday, August 12, and taken down after 10:00 PM Friday, August 12 or before 7:00 AM Saturday, August 13. Presenters should be at their posters from 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM; 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM.

POSTER SESSION B

Friday 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM

B1_Evaluation of a visually guided hearing aid using a dynamic question/answer task (Virginia Best, Elin Roverud, Timothy Streeter, Christine R Mason and Gerald Kidd Jr)

B2_The influence of vowel quality on stream segregation of synthetic vowels (Morten Eigil Holm, Lars Bramsløw and Peter Juel Henrichsen)

B3_Using the acoustic reflex threshold and auditory brainstem re-sponse to investigate changes in neural gain following short-term augmented acoustic stimulation in adults (Hannah Brotherton, Christo-pher J. Plack, Roland Schaette and Kevin J. Munro)

B4_Current spread in cochlear implants reduces speech intelligibility but is not the only limiter of the number of effective electrodes. Im-plications for the bilateral channel-interleaving strategy (Jacques A Grange and John F. Culling)

B5_Hearing aid demographics: What did change during the last two decades? (Martin Kinkel)

B6_Improved management of patients with auditory processing deficits fit with low-gain hearing aids (Melissa Kokx-Ryan, Jo Manette Nousak, Jacquelyn C. Jackson, Thomas DeGraba, Douglas S. Brungart and Kenneth W. Grant)

B7_Objective, individualized benefit prediction for hearing aid algo-rithms using automatic speech recognition: How far do we get with FADE? (Birger Kollmeier, Anna Warzybok, Stephan Ernst, Marc René Schädler)

B8_Identification of attended speech stream using single-trial EEG recordings (Ala Somarowthu, Nai Ding and Ying-Yee Kong)

B9_Adaptive wind noise attenuation algorithm: Subjective annoy-ance and speech-in-wind performance (Petri Korhonen and Francis Kuk)

B10_Model-based fitting of compression settings using narrowband stimuli (Borys Kowalewski, Ewen MacDonald, Olaf Strelcyk and Torsten Dau)

B11_Speech coding errors in cochlear implants and their impact on speech intelligibility in noise (Abigail A. Kressner, Adam Westermann, Jörg M. Buchholz and Christopher J. Rozell)

B12_A new tool for subjective assessment of hearing aid perfor-mance: Analyses of interpersonal communication—next step(s) (Matthias Latzel, Markus Meis, Richard Paluch, and Melanie Krüger)

B13_An improved design for noise reduction systems (Nicolas Le Goff, Jesper Jensen, Michael Syskind Pedersen and Thomas Behrens)

B14_Speech quality and stable gain trade-offs in adaptive feedback cancellation for hearing aids (Ching-Hua Lee, James Kates, Bhaskar Rao and Harinath Garudadri)

B15_Evaluation of the relative effectiveness of four methods of hear-ing aid orientation (M. Samantha Lewis, Susan Griest, Leslie Grush, Jay Vachhani, Katharina Echt and Gabrielle Saunders)

B16_Effect of low-frequency gain on speech intelligibility in hearing-impaired listeners (Jonas Lochner, Sébastien Santurette, Ewen MacDon-ald and Lars Bramsløw)

B17_Influence of multi-microphone hearing aid algorithms on source movement perception (Micha Lundbeck, Giso Grimm, Volker Hohmann, Lars Bramsløw, Tobias Neher)

B18_Interactive effects of evaluative observation and listening task demand on measures of autonomic nervous system activity in listen-ers with hearing loss (Carol L. Mackersie and Lucia Kearney)

B19_Using m-health technologies to increase access and benefits of hearing-related education interventions for hearing aid users (Melanie Ferguson, David Maidment, William Brassington and Heather Wharrad)

B20_Improved efficiency in round window stimulation by controlled pretension with the Hannover Coupler (Hannes Maier, Mathias Müller, Rolf Salcher, Thomas Lenarz)

B21_Evaluation of MVDR-based noise reduction algorithms for bin-aural hearing aids in the presence of DOA estimation errors (Daniel Marquardt, Hendrik Kayser and Simon Doclo)

B22_Hearing aid outcomes in patients with and without Posttrau-matic Stress Disorder (Julia McDowell, Sherri L. Smith, Marc Fagel-son, Kim Schairer)

B23_Modeling hidden hearing loss (Martin F. McKinney)

B24_Psychoacoustic measurements of phase and level necessary for cross-talk cancellation from bilateral bone anchored hearing aids (BAHAs) (Robert Mcleod and John Culling)

B25_A binaural noise reduction system with speech-referenced loud-ness control and improved preservation of spatial cues (Jorge Mejia, Michael Fisher, Richard Van-Hoesel, Margot Macllend, Cong-Van Nguyen, James Galloway, Harvey Dillon and Robert Cowan)

B26_Objective measurement of the impact of across-signal modula-tion coherence on music perception in hearing impaired listeners (Tim Metcalfe, Kelly Fitz and Jason Galster)

B27_Method-of-adjustment versus Bayesian optimization for fast learning of user-preferred hearing-aid settings (Jing Mi, Sridhar Kalluri, Christophe Micheyl)

B28_Pitch-perception alterations in hearing-impaired individuals, and their relationship with absolute thresholds (Christophe Micheyl, David Colin and Stéphane Gallego0

B29_Model-based Analysis of Interaural Time Differences Percep-tion in Hearing Impaired Listeners (Arturo Moncada-Torres, Suyash N. Joshi, Bastian Epp and Tom Francart)

B30_Spectrotemporal modulation detection associated with music perception (Il Joon Moon, Chul Hee Kim, Ji Eun Choi, Heesung Park, Yang-Sun Cho, Sung Hwa Hong)

B31_Envelope modulation and intelligibility for speech in a simple model of reverberation (Ramesh Kumar Muralimanohar, James M. Kates and Kathryn H. Arehart)

B32_Normative thresholds for and repeatability of the TEN(HL) test (Vinay S. Nagaraj and Brian C. J. Moore)

B33_Relations between self-reports of auditory lifestyle, disability and tiredness in hearing-aid users and non-users with mild to moder-ate hearing loss (Graham Naylor and Jack Holman)

B34_Can hearing aids speed up speech comprehension in noise? In-sights from eye-tracking measurements (Julia Habicht, Birger Kollmeier and Tobias Neher)

B35_Real-time noise reduction system enhances auditory word recall performance in noise (Elaine H. N. Ng, Thomas Lunner and Jerker Rönnberg)

B36_Pre-cochlear-implant amplification profiles for pediatric recipi-ents (Alissa Nickerson, Lisa S. Davidson, Rosalie M. Uchanski and Chris Brenner)

B37_Linking cognitive abilities to speech recognition in complex lis-tening situations (Theresa Nüsse, Rike Steenken, Tobias Neher and Inga Holube)

B38_Impact of stimulus-related factors and hearing status on listen-ing effort as indicated by pupil dilation (Barbara Ohlenforst, Adriana A. Zekveld, Thomas Lunner, Dorothea Wendt, Graham Naylor, Yang Wang, Niek J. Versfeld and Sophia E. Kramer)

B39_Sound classification for hearing aids using deep neural network (Masatoshi Osawa, Chiho Haruta and Masahiro Sunohara)

B40_Reproducibility and tester variability of real ear insertion gain (Jon Øygarden, Lars Gunnar Rosvoldaunet, Thomas Dalmo, Tom Lyn-gaas Holsæter and Camilla Wilson)

B41_Sensitivity to temporal fine structure (TFS) and hearing aid out-come (Heesung Park, Jae Hee Lee, Sung Hwa Hong, Il Joon Moon, Yang-Sung Cho)

B42_Reference-free metrics for hearing aid speech quality assess-ment (Haniyeh Salehi, Vijay Parsa, Paula Folkeard, Stephanie Steffler and Jim Ryan)

B43_The impact of long-term hearing amplification on cognitive per-formance: A systematic review (Nicholas Reed, Adele Goman and Frank Lin)

B44_Modelling context effects in phoneme and word recognition in interrupted noise and interrupted speech (Koenraad S. Rhebergen, Jelmer van Schoonhoven, Wouter A. Dreschler)

B45_In search of individual factors influencing non-linear frequency compression benefit (Maja Serman, Kaja Kallisch, Paula Folkeard, Su-san Scollie, Jana Welling)

B46_Auditory, signal processing, and cognitive factors influencing speech perception in persons with hearing loss fitted with hearing aids – the N200 study (Stefan Stenfelt, Thomas Lunner, Elaine Ng, Björn Lidestam, Adriana Zekveld, Patrik Sörqvist, Björn Lyxell, Ulf Träff, Wycliffe Yumba, Elisabet Classon, Mathias Hällgren, Birgitta Larsby, Carine Signoret, Kathleen Pichora-Fuller, Mary Rudner, Henrik Danielsson, Jerker Rönnberg)

B47_Development and psychometric evaluation of a health-related quality of life instrument for individuals with adult-onset hearing loss (Carren J. Stika and Ron D. Hays)

B48_Assessing the relationship between acoustic and neural tempo-ral fine structure: Insights from physiology-based modeling (Jaya-ganesh Swaminathan, Christophe Micheyl, Sridhar Kalluri and Louis D. Braida)

Posters for Session C should be put up by 8:00 AM Saturday, August 13, and taken down after 10:00 PM Saturday, August 13 or before 7:00 AM Sunday, August 14. Presenters should be at their posters from 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM; 8:30 – 10:00 PM.

POSTER SESSION C

Saturday 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM

C1_On the potential of different sound field synthesis techniques for the evaluation of hearing aids in an acoustically treated laboratory environment (Karim Helwani, Buye Xu and Tao Zhang)

C2_The effect of interleaved dichotic presentation in a competing voices test (Lars Bramsløw, Marianna Vatti, Renskje K. Hietkamp and Niels Henrik Pontoppidan)

C3_Learning effects as result of multiple exposures to Danish HINT (Lars Bramsløw, Lisbeth Birkelund Simonsen, Mona El Hichou, Rawan Hashem and Renskje K. Hietkamp)

C4_The development of a new outcome measure to assess social participation in adults with mild-moderate hearing loss (Eithne Heffernan, David Maidment, Johanna Barry, Neil Coulson and Melanie Ferguson)

C5_Comparison of IMEHD actuator efficiency measured in-vivo and in-vitro (Martin Grossoehmichen, Susan Busch, Bernd Waldmann, Thomas Lenarz, Hannes Maier)

C6_Acceptable hearing aid delay as a function of signal-to-noise ratio (Martin F. McKinney, Justin Burwinkel, Jason Galster and Tao Zhang)

C7_Hearing aid use and associated factors in South Korea (Il Joon Moon, Sun Young Baek, Yang-Sun Cho)

C8_Will the combination of three pre-fitting speech tests help predict hearing aid use success? (Hua Ou)

C9_The influence of the stimulus level used to prescribe nonlinear frequency-compression on speech perception (Daniel M. Rasetshwane, David A. Raybine, Judy G. Kopun, Marc A. Brennan and Ryan W. Mc-Creery)

C10_Effects of a frequency-lowering hearing aid on consonant identi-fication and detection of final-word s/z for listeners with high-fre-

quency hearing loss (Marina Salorio-Corbetto, Thomas Baer, Brian C.J. Moore)

C11_Acoustic feedback cancellation for a multi-microphone earpiece using a null-steering beamformer (Henning Schepker and Simon Do-clo)

C12_Hearing-impaired listeners show poorer than normal ampli-tude-modulation depth discrimination (Josef Schlittenlacher and Brian C. J. Moore)

C13_Hearing aids help to reduce listening effort in daily life for first-time users with mild hearing losses (Michael Schulte, Julia Habicht, Tobias Neher, Markus Meis and Kirsten Wagener)

C14_Evaluation of sound quality with adaptive nonlinear frequency compression (Danielle Glista, Marianne Hawkins, Haniyeh Salehi, Nazanin Pourmand, Vijay Parsa and Susan Scollie)

C15_A modified Acceptable Noise Level test to evaluate a noise re-duction feature (Eric Seper and Francis Kuk)

C16_Open source mobile software for distributed studies of hearing (Marc Shapiro, Brendan Flynn, Jed Wilbur, Douglas Brungart and Odile Clavier)

C17_Adaptation of the Dangerous Decibels program for an adult au-dience (Jolene Sletten, Susan Griest, Gabrielle Saunders)

C18_Common Sound Scenarios – A context-driven categorization of everyday sound environments for application in hearing-device re-search (Florian Wolters, Karolina Smeds, Erik Schmidt, Eva K Chris-tensen and Christian Norup)

C19_Improving rehabilitation of the hearing impaired based on pro-filing and COSI: results of a pilot with an improved protocol in the Netherlands (Wim Soede, Bert van Zanten and Wouter A. Dreschler)

C20_Quantifying the effects of audibility and distortion losses on speech communication in real-world noise environments (Sigfrid D. Soli, Kevin Harkin)

C21_Variability in hearing aid outcomes in older adults: Clinical trial design and preliminary results (Pamela Souza, Tim Schoof, Melinda Anderson and Kathryn Arehart)

C22_Real-time implementation, fitting and evaluation of a bimodal loudness balance strategy (Dimitar Spirrov, Bas van Dijk and Tom Francart)

C23_Perceptual separation of concurrent speech for single-sided deaf listeners with osseointegrated hearing devices (Olga A. Stakhovskaya, Cynthia Zehner and Joshua G. W. Bernstein)

C24_Binaural hearing benefit with interaural asymmetrical process-ing delays and symmetrical and asymmetrical sensorineural hearing loss (Stefan Stenfelt, Mehrnaz Zeitooni and Elina Mäki-Torkko)

C25_TV/media listening and hearing aids (Olaf Strelcyk, Gurjit Singh, Lori Rakita, Ralph Peter Derleth, Stefan Launer)

C26_Computationally efficient dereverberation algorithm for hearing aids based on spectral subtraction (Masahiro Sunohara, Masatoshi Osawa, Yoh-ko Fujishima and Yoh-ichi Fujisaka)

C27_Assessing the effects of sensorineural hearing loss on envelope coding in adverse listening environments– Insights from physiology based modeling (Jayaganesh Swaminathan, Jing Xia, Buye Xu, Sridhar Kalluri, Christophe Micheyl, Swapan Gandhi, Jingjing Xu, Adam Svec and Simon Carlile)

C28_Relationship of the frequency selectivity of hearing-impaired subjects to the perception of nonlinearly distorted speech and music (Stefania Goncalves, Chin-Tuan Tan, Brian C.J. Moore and Mario Svirsky)

C29_The effect of hearing aid amplification on predicted pitch salience (Larissa Taylor, Dana Swarbrick and Ian Bruce)

C30_Predicting hearing aid success from characteristics of the psy-chometric function for speech perception in noise (Kelley Trapp, Christi Miller, Christopher Bishop, Michael Lee, Yu-Hsiang Wu, Kelly Tremblay, Ruth Bentler)

C31_Towards an objective measure of a balanced loudness percept (Maaike Van Eeckhoutte, Jan Wouters, Tom Francart)

C32_Predicting speech understanding from EEG recordings: effect of attention (Jonas Vanthornhout, Lien Decruy, Jan Wouters, Jonathan Z. Simon and Tom Francart)

C33_A systematic review of domains relating to the everyday impact of hearing loss, as reported by patients or their communication part-ner(s) (Venessa Vas, Deborah Hall and Michael A. Akeroyd)

C34_Ecological Momentary Assessment: Subjective ratings and ob-jective acoustic parameters in daily listening situations (Petra von Gablenz, Sven Kissner, Jörg Bitzer and Inga Holube)

C35_Trainable hearing aids: Clinical impact and reliability of train-ing (Els Walravens, Gitte Keidser and Louise Hickson)

C36_Studying the influence of hearing loss on parasympathetic inhi-bition via speech-in-noise test in dark and light conditions (Yang Wang, Adriana A. Zekveld, Thomas Lunner, Dorothea Wendt, Graham Naylor, Barbara Ohlenforst and Sophia E. Kramer

C37_Spatial release from masking in complex acoustical scenes and the effect of hearing-aid processing (Vera Löw, Adam Westermann, Marton Marschall, Jens Cubick and Torsten Dau)

C38_Developing a revised performance-perceptual test using quick speech-in-noise test material (Matthew Wetmore and Hua Ou)

C39_Fitting hearing aids with just-noticeable differences (William Whitmer, David McShefferty, Benjamin Caswell-Midwinter and Graham Naylor)

C40_Effects of dynamic-range compression on amplitude modulation processing and speech recognition (Alan Wiinberg, Morten Løve Jepsen, Bastian Epp and Torsten Dau)

C41_Can acoustic simulations of hearing loss be used to elicit prefer-ence judgements about health states? (Natalie Williams, Robert Pierzy-cki, Michael Akeroyd, Pádraig T. Kitterick)

C42_Multi-band piezoelectric MEMS microphones for hearing aids inspired by the fly Ormia ochracea (James F.C. Windmill, Yansheng Zhang, Ralf Bauer, William M. Whitmer, Deepak Uttamchandani)

C43_Design of trans-tympanic microphone using the graphene di-aphragm for fully implantable hearing devices (Seong Tak Woo, Ki-Woong Seong, Kyu-Yup Lee, Sunil Puria and Jin-Ho Cho)

C44_Use of categorical loudness scaling to measure loudness in sones (Marcin Wróblewski, Daniel Rasetshwane, Stephen Neely and Walt Jesteadt)

C45_Evaluation of a novel robust adaptive binaural beamforming al-gorithm for hearing aids (Jinjun Xiao, Ivo Merks and Tao Zhang)

C46_Predicting effects of non-linear frequency compression and im-pulse-noise suppression on consonant perception (Johannes Zaar, Nicola Schmitt, Ralph-Peter Derleth, and Torsten Dau)

C47_Early Language development in young Mandarin-speaking chil-dren: A longitudinal prospective study with SSF-MCDI assessment (Yuan Zhang, Yun Zheng, Sigfrid D. Soli, Zhaoli Meng

C48_Adaptive binaural beamforming based on model-based binaural localization (Mehdi Zohourian and Rainer Martin)