Abnormal speech processing in frequency regions where absolute thresholds are normal for listeners with high-frequency hearing loss

AC Léger, BCJ Moore, C Lorenzi - Hearing research, 2012 - Elsevier
… Author links open overlay panel Agnès C. Léger a b , Brian CJ Moore c , Christian Lorenzi
a … AC Léger was supported by a CIFRE grant from ANRT and Neurelec. BCJ Moore was …

Role of slow temporal modulations in speech identification for cochlear implant users

…, DS Lazard, AC Léger, C Fugain… - … journal of audiology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: This study aimed to assess whether the capacity of cochlear implant (CI) users to
identify speech is determined by their capacity to perceive slow (< 20 Hz) temporal …

Temporal and spectral masking release in low-and mid-frequency regions for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners

AC Léger, BCJ Moore, C Lorenzi - … Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
“Masking release”(MR), the improvement of speech intelligibility in modulated compared with
unmodulated maskers, is typically smaller than normal for hearing-impaired listeners. The …

Consonant identification in noise using Hilbert-transform temporal fine-structure speech and recovered-envelope speech for listeners with normal and impaired …

AC Léger, CM Reed, JG Desloge… - The Journal of the …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
… The speech stimuli consisted of recordings of monosyllables in /a/-C-/a/ format with 16 values
of C = /p, t, k, b, d, g, f, s, ∫, v, z, dʒ, m, n, r, l/. These recordings were taken from the corpus …

Effects of age on sensitivity to interaural time differences in envelope and fine structure, individually and in combination

…, MG Heinz, LD Braida, AC Léger - The Journal of the …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
… Braida, Agnès C. Léger; Effects of age on sensitivity to interaural time differences in envelope
and fine structure, individually and in combination. J Acoust Soc Am 1 March 2018; 143 (3)…

Physiological prediction of masking release for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners

…, AC Léger, BC Moore, C Lorenzi - Proceedings of Meetings …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
“Masking release” corresponds to the improvement of speech intelligibility because of some
change in the masker or in the target/masker relationship. One form of monaural masking …

The role of recovered envelope cues in the identification of temporal-fine-structure speech for hearing-impaired listeners

AC Leger, JG Desloge, LD Braida… - The Journal of the …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Narrowband speech can be separated into fast temporal cues [temporal fine structure (TFS)],
and slow amplitude modulations (envelope). Speech processed to contain only TFS leads …

Modelling firing regularity in the ventral cochlear nucleus: Mechanisms, and effects of stimulus level and synaptopathy

…, IM Winter, AC Léger, A de Cheveigné, C Lorenzi - Hearing research, 2018 - Elsevier
The auditory system processes temporal information at multiple scales, and disruptions to
this temporal processing may lead to deficits in auditory tasks such as detecting and …

Effects of spectral smearing on the identification of speech in noise filtered into low-and mid-frequency regions

AC Léger, BCJ Moore, D Gnansia… - The Journal of the …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Léger et al.[J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 131, 1502–1514 (2012)] reported deficits in the identification
of consonants in noise by hearing-impaired listeners using stimuli filtered into low-or mid-…

Abnormal intelligibility of speech in competing speech and in noise in a frequency region where audiometric thresholds are near-normal for hearing-impaired listeners

AC Leger, DT Ives, C Lorenzi - Hearing research, 2014 - Elsevier
The ability to identify syllables in the presence of speech-shaped noise and a single-talker
background was measured for 18 normal-hearing (NH) listeners, and for eight hearing-…