HEARING RESEARCH听力研究
HEARING RESEARCH(英文缩写 HEARING RES),ISSN 0378-5955,eISSN 1878-5891,中文译名:听力研究 是一本学术期刊。本页汇总该期刊的最新影响因子、分区信息以及最新收录于 PubMed 的文献,帮助您快速了解期刊全貌。
发文量统计区间：2025-09-27 至 2026-09-27，按本站收录文献的发表日期统计。
期刊介绍
历年影响因子趋势
| JCR 数据年份 | 影响因子 | JCR 分区 |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3.672 | Q1 |
| 2022 | 2.800 | Q1 |
| 2023 | 2.500 | Q1 |
| 2024 | 2.500 | Q1 |
| 2025 | 3.000 | Q1 |
HEARING RESEARCH 最新收录文献
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2. Hyperacusis scores and listening characteristics: Extended high-frequency audiograms from a young population without tinnitus and with low noise exposure.
PMID:日期:2026-10-01Hyperacusis describes the condition in which mid-level sounds are perceived as uncomfortably loud. This study assessed 36 listeners (mean age = 25.75 years) with low noise-exposure history (Noise Exposure Structured Interview, NESI) and no tinnitus, to investigate the association between assessed hyperacusis scores (Hyperacusis Questionnaire, HQ), measured uncomfortable loudness levels (ULLs), and speech intelligibility in noise (Matrix Speech test). Thresholds were ≤ 20 dB HL, for the standard audiometric signal frequencies (0.25-8 kHz). ULLs were measured for signal frequencies of 0.5-, 2-, and 4-kHz. Extended high-frequency (EHF) audiometric thresholds were also measured for signal frequencies up to 16 kHz. Cluster analysis identified three groups based on EHF audiometric threshold and slope. The cluster EHF thresholds for the three groups were 5.2 dB HL (LOW-hf), 18.3 dB HL (MED-hf), and 45.7 dB HL (HIGH-hf). Results indicated that the MED-hf group exhibited significantly higher HQ scores compared to the HQ scores associated with LOW-hf and HIGH-hf groups. Also, elevated EHF thresholds were generally unrelated to speech-in-noise intelligibility scores, and there was no significant relationship between HQ and NESI scores. For young listeners with relatively low noise exposure, normal or mildly-elevated EHF thresholds (8-16 kHz) may be associated with mid-range HQ scores.
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3. The mismatch negativity emergence with auditory pattern segmentation: A revisit of the paradigm by Sussman and Gumenyuk (2005).
PMID:日期:2026-10-01Infrequent pitch changes can usually elicit an electroencephalography (EEG) response, the mismatch negativity (MMN). By using a fixed five-tone sequence (AAAAB) composed of two pitches (A and B), Sussman and Gumenyuk (2005) found that the repetition of AAAAB patterns with a narrow stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA), but without inter-group intervals, eliminated the MMN to B tones. They attributed those outcomes to sensory memory formation of the AAAAB sequence. On the other hand, many studies have revealed the enhanced MMN to sound groups by introducing inter-group intervals. In the current study, we compared two experimental conditions with and without inter-group intervals for the research paradigm of Sussman and Gumenyuk (2005). With inter-group intervals, the AAAAB pattern repetition did not prevent the MMN elicitation to B tones for any SOA. Without inter-group intervals, however, the MMN to B tones was reduced for narrow SOAs. Considering the role of inter-group intervals as an enhancer of an auditory group representation, the present outcomes were interpreted.
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4. Relationship between age-related hearing loss, phonological working memory, and global cognitive performance.
PMID:日期:2026-10-01Age-related hearing loss is associated with lower cognitive performance in later life, but the behavioral pathways linking these domains remain unclear. Phonological working memory, as assessed by nonword repetition, depends on both auditory input quality and availability of cognitive resources and may represent a candidate pathway linking hearing and cognition. This study examined whether hearing sensitivity and global cognitive performance are independently associated with nonword repetition and whether nonword repetition accounts for part of their association. One hundred twenty adults aged 55-80 years completed pure-tone audiometry, a standardized nonword repetition task, and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA). Associations among hearing sensitivity, nonword repetition, and global cognitive performance were examined using regression and mediation analyses controlling for age, sex, and education. Poorer hearing sensitivity and poorer cognitive performance were each independently associated with reduced nonword repetition accuracy, with hearing sensitivity showing a stronger association. Both factors explained unique variance in performance, with additive (non-interactive) effects. Mediation analyses indicated that nonword repetition accounted for part of the association between hearing sensitivity and global cognitive performance. The results showed that nonword repetition is a task that is independently associated with hearing sensitivity and global cognition in older adults. The findings support a framework in which degraded auditory input imposes primary constraints on phonological processing, with cognitive resources providing limited compensation. Nonword repetition may offer a useful behavioral measure for assessing combined auditory and cognitive variability in adults in mid-to-late life.
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5. Role of harmonicity in counting and hearing out voices in polyphonic music: Effects of hearing loss.
PMID:日期:2026-10-01Music plays an important role in many people's lives. While the effects of hearing loss on speech are well studied, its impact on music perception is less understood. To address this gap, the current study utilized polyphonic female vocal passages in an enumeration and a voice-tracking task to investigate how normal-hearing (NH) and hearing-impaired (HI) listeners with mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss perceive individual voices in polyphonic music. We hypothesized that hearing loss would hinder listeners' ability to distinguish voices in music due to impaired frequency selectivity, but that inharmonicity, introduced separately into each voice, would impact HI listeners less, due to their potentially reduced sensitivity to inharmonicity and pitch. Results indicated that NH listeners outperformed HI listeners in the enumeration task, but that performance in the voice-tracking task was not significantly different between groups. Although inharmonicity degraded performance across tasks, particularly in the enumeration task, HI listeners were less affected than NH listeners, at least at higher voice numbers. Exploratory analyses showed modest influences of age and musicianship on HI listeners' performance in the enumeration task and provide promising avenues for future research. Overall, these findings point toward a task-dependent effect of hearing loss on music perception, impacting dense auditory scenes more severely, while leaving some ability to track a cued voice within polyphonic music. Taken together, these results may help inform future research exploring targeted interventions to support music listening for HI listeners.
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6. Is vocal emotional processing fine-tuned to speaker gender, identity and phonetic content? - Evidence from simultaneous opposite adaptation.
PMID:日期:2026-10-01The perception of vocal emotions requires efficient and flexible processing of auditory input. A hallmark of this flexibility is perceptual adaptation, which enables listeners to tune into the current auditory context (e.g., angry voices), thus sensitizing the system to sudden changes (e.g., a shift to fear). However, how vocal emotion adaptation is modulated by either stable speaker characteristics such as gender and identity, or dynamic cues such as phonetic content is insufficiently understood. This gap was addressed in three experiments using a paradigm inducing simultaneous opposite aftereffects: during adaptation, emotions were systematically tied to a voice feature to test if adaptation aftereffects could be induced in opposite directions along a fear-anger continuum. For example, after adaptation to angry-male and fearful-female voices, male targets should be more often perceived as fearful and female ones more often as angry. Based on theoretical considerations, such simultaneous opposite aftereffects were predicted for speaker gender (Experiment1) and identity (Experiment 2) but should not appear for phonetic pseudoword content (Experiment 3). Indeed, the expected pattern was observed for speaker gender and pseudoword. Evidence for speaker identity was not fully conclusive but offered promising hints that listeners may exhibit nuanced adaptation to different speakers as well. Together, these findings show that vocal emotion adaptation is partially fine-tuned to stable speaker characteristics, whereas this does not seem to be case for dynamic phonetic content. This provides important empirical support for recent calls that a comprehensive understanding of vocal emotional processing requires a closer look at the speakers expressing them.
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7. Asymmetry of vestibular pathways predicts upper-brainstem auditory imbalance in subjective somatosensory tinnitus: A tract-specific chronological reorganization model.
PMID:日期:2026-10-01This study evaluated subcortical auditory and peripheral vestibular pathway alterations in normal-hearing individuals with unilateral subjective somatic tinnitus, isolating cross-modal electrophysiological relationships using an intra-subject, internally controlled paradigm. Twenty-four participants (aged 17-61 years) with unilateral subjective somatic tinnitus and symmetric normal hearing thresholds (≤15 dB HL across 0.125-8 kHz) underwent auditory brainstem response (ABR), cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potential (cVEMP), and ocular VEMP (oVEMP) testing. Mathematically normalized Interaural Asymmetry Indices (AI) isolated side-specific neural imbalances. Conventional audiological profiles, middle ear compliance, and absolute ABR parameters (waves I-V) displayed interaural symmetry (p > .05). Conversely, absolute oVEMP evaluations demonstrated a statistically significant reduction in P1-N1 peak-to-peak amplitudes within the tinnitus-affected ears (M = 4.23 µV, SD = 2.98) relative to the healthy contralateral ears (M = 5.76 µV, SD = 4.72, p = .014), while absolute cVEMP parameters remained balanced (p = .396). Correlation analysis of normalized indices revealed a strong positive relationship between cVEMP AI and ABR wave V AI (r(22) = .555, p = .005). Multiple linear regression modeling showed that combined vestibulocollic (cVEMP) and vestibulo-ocular (oVEMP) neural asymmetries significantly predicted upper-brainstem auditory asymmetry at the level of the inferior colliculus, F(2, 21) = 8.66, p = .002, accounting for 45.2% of the variance in ABR wave V asymmetry (R = .452). Tinnitus chronicity showed an exploratory positive correlation with cVEMP AI (r(22) = .456, unadjusted p = .025; did not survive FDR correction). Unilateral subjective somatic tinnitus appears to involve tract-specific subcortical electrophysiological asymmetries. We discuss these side-specific differences within a chronological reorganization framework. While acute ascending vestibulo-ocular suppression marks the initial gating failure, a progressively deepening descending vestibulocollic imbalance is strongly associated with upper auditory brainstem asymmetry. These outcomes validate combined VEMP indices as objective biomarkers and provide a neurophysiological rationale for future interventional trials to test whether early targeted bimodal neuromodulation can effectively reset subcortical hyperactivity before persistent neuroplastic consolidation.
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8. The decline of progranulin expression in cochlear Microglia-Like Cells accelerates the progression of age-related hearing loss.
PMID:日期:2026-10-01Accumulating evidence indicates that crosstalk between immune cells and intrinsic cochlear cells is critical for maintaining auditory homeostasis. However, the activation profile of cochlear microglia-like cells (MLCs) and their mechanistic role in age-related hearing loss (ARHL) remain poorly defined. Here, we show that MLCs are robustly activated in the cochlea of aged mice, and that pharmacologic depletion of cochlear MLCs significantly attenuates ARHL progression. To dissect the mechanisms underlying MLC-driven cochlear damage in ARHL, we leveraged the single-cell transcriptomic landscape of the aged mouse cochlea previously generated by our research group, and conducted the related functional validation. We identified prominent age-related alterations in cochlear MLCs, and revealed that AAV-mediated (via posterior semicircular canal microinjection) upregulation of progranulin (GRN) in MLCs mitigates aging-associated oxidative stress damage in the cochlea. Collectively, our work demonstrates that targeting GRN signaling in cochlear MLCs alleviates aging-related oxidative stress in the cochlea, and thereby delays ARHL progression.
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9. Electrically evoked compound action potentials in adult and pediatric cochlear implant users: I. Cochlear nerve responsiveness and electrode-neuron interface index.
PMID:日期:2026-10-01Adult and pediatric cochlear implant (CI) users differ in age, duration of deafness, and etiology, yet cochlear nerve (CN) response properties have not been systematically compared between these populations. To address this gap, this study examined electrically evoked compound action potentials (eCAPs) in pediatric and postlingually deafened adult CI users. Seven eCAP-derived indices were evaluated, including threshold, amplitude at the maximum comfortable level, overall and maximal slopes of the amplitude growth function (AGF), absolute and relative refractory periods (t and τ), and the local electrode-neuron interface (ENI) index. Sixty-four adult and 56 pediatric users of Cochlear™ Nucleus® CI devices were tested. eCAP AGFs and refractory recovery functions (RRFs) were measured at three to seven electrodes along the array. AGF slopes were quantified using linear regression and the window method, while t and τ were derived by fitting RRFs with exponential decay functions. Local ENI index was calculated using a machine-learning model incorporating several eCAP measurements. Linear mixed-effects models revealed both shared and distinct patterns of CN responsiveness between pediatric and adult CI users. Pediatric users demonstrated lower eCAP thresholds than adults when pooled across electrode locations. Adults exhibited shallower AGF slopes at basal electrodes than middle and apical electrodes. RRF-derived indices revealed shorter refractory periods in adults, likely influenced by group differences in maximum comfortable stimulation levels. Across both groups, several eCAP measures showed poorer responses at middle electrode locations relative to apical and/or basal sites. Future studies incorporating additional eCAP metrics may further clarify group differences in CN health and function.
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10. Cortical speech-in-noise processing reflects subcortical syllable encoding and lexical attention.
PMID:日期:2026-10-01Speech-in-noise performance varies among individuals with similar hearing sensitivity. Such variability may manifest as varying cortical representations of speech in noise, which may stem from peripheral sensory fidelity and the efficacy of top-down attention. The present study examined how subcortical speech-syllable encoding and lexical attention shape cortical speech-in-noise representation, as measured by neural signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) based on the amplitude ratio of auditory-evoked responses to the target speech onset and the noise onset. The result indicated that neural SNR significantly correlated with behavioral speech-in-noise performance in the moderate-difficulty acoustic condition. The regression model showed that subcortical syllable encoding fidelity and lexical attentional performance independently predicted the neural SNR, suggesting converging contributions from both bottom-up sensory encoding and top-down attention. In addition, syllable encoding, lexical attention, and neural SNR collectively accounted for individual variability in behavioral performance, indicating a shared, partially overlapped contribution from sensory, attentional, and cortical measures to behavioral speech-in-noise perception. Our findings highlight that individual neural SNR serves as a behaviorally relevant cortical speech-in-noise representation reflecting both sensory and attentional mechanisms.