Effects of directional sound processing and listener's motivation on EEG responses to continuous noisy speech: Do normal-hearing and aided hearing-impaired listeners differ?

摘要

Objective: It has been suggested that the next major advancement in hearing aid (HA) technology needs to include cognitive feedback from the user to control HA functionality. In order to enable automatic brainwave-steered HA adjustments, attentional processes underlying speech-in-noise perception in aided hearing-impaired individuals need to be better understood. Here, we addressed the influence of two important factors for the listening performance of HA users hearing aid processing and motivation by analysing ongoing neural responses during long-term listening to continuous noisy speech.