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Audiology Research, Volume 11, Issue 2

June 2021 - 15 articles

Cover Story: When the transducer is placed on the aural cartilage, particularly on the tragus, a relatively loud sound is audible. This form of conduction is referred to as cartilage conduction (CC). In CC, the aural cartilage functions similar to the movable plate of a vibration speaker, and thus the signal in the ear canal increases in amplitude compared to when the transducer is unattached to the aural cartilage. This transduction mechanism, unique from air and bone conductions, is responsible for the CC characteristics. In terms of clinical applications, CC hearing aids are a good option for patients with aural atresia. The advantages of CC, namely, comfort, stable fixation, esthetics, and non-invasiveness, facilitate its clinical use. View this paper.
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Articles (15)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,848 Views
10 Pages

19 June 2021

Hearing loss and chronic vestibular pathologies require brain adaptive mechanisms supported by a cross-modal cortical plasticity. They are often accompanied by cognitive deficits. Spatial memory is a cognitive process responsible for recording inform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,061 Views
7 Pages

Benefits of Cartilage Conduction Hearing Aids for Speech Perception in Unilateral Aural Atresia

  • Sakie Akasaka,
  • Tadashi Nishimura,
  • Hiroshi Hosoi,
  • Osamu Saito,
  • Ryota Shimokura,
  • Chihiro Morimoto and
  • Tadashi Kitahara

17 June 2021

Severe conductive hearing loss due to unilateral aural atresia leads to auditory and developmental disorders, such as difficulty in hearing in challenging situations. Bone conduction devices compensate for the disability but unfortunately have severa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,061 Views
9 Pages

Hearing Screening among First-Grade Children in Rural Areas and Small Towns in Małopolskie Voivodeship, Poland

  • Weronika Swierniak,
  • Piotr Henryk Skarzynski,
  • Elzbieta Gos,
  • Natalia Czajka,
  • Monika Matusiak,
  • Patryk Hartwich and
  • Magdalena Beata Skarzynska

15 June 2021

Undiagnosed hearing deficits hamper a child’s ability to learn. Hearing screening in school aged children helps detect educationally significant hearing loss and prevents negative impacts on academic achievement. The main purpose of this study was to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,400 Views
12 Pages

Management of Residual Hearing with Cartilage Conduction Hearing Aid after Lateral Temporal Bone Resection: Our Institutional Experience

  • Noritaka Komune,
  • Yoshie Higashino,
  • Kazuha Ishikawa,
  • Tomoko Tabuki,
  • Shogo Masuda,
  • Kensuke Koike,
  • Takahiro Hongo,
  • Kuniaki Sato,
  • Ryutaro Uchi and
  • Masaru Miyazaki
  • + 6 authors

Background: There is no guideline for hearing compensation after temporal bone resection. This study aimed to retrospectively analyze surgical cases with reconstruction for hearing preservation after temporal bone malignancy resection and propose a n...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,166 Views
9 Pages

Cartilage Conduction Hearing and Its Clinical Application

  • Tadashi Nishimura,
  • Hiroshi Hosoi,
  • Ryota Shimokura,
  • Chihiro Morimoto and
  • Tadashi Kitahara

Cartilage conduction (CC) is a form of conduction that allows a relatively loud sound to be audible when a transducer is placed on the aural cartilage. The CC transmission mechanism has gradually been elucidated, allowing for the development of CC he...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,917 Views
10 Pages

Perception Mechanism of Bone-Conducted Ultrasound and Its Clinical Use

  • Tadashi Nishimura,
  • Tadao Okayasu,
  • Akinori Yamashita,
  • Hiroshi Hosoi and
  • Tadashi Kitahara

It is generally believed that ultrasound cannot be heard. However, ultrasound is audible when it is presented through bone conduction. Bone-conducted ultrasound (BCU) has unique characteristics; the most interesting is its perception in patients with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,538 Views
17 Pages

The effect of non-informational speech spectrum noise as a distractor on cognitive and listening comprehension ability was examined in fifty-three young, normal hearing adults. Time-controlled tasks were used to measure auditory working memory (WM) c...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,297 Views
7 Pages

The presence of spiral ganglion cells (SGCs) is widely accepted to be a prerequisite for successful speech perception with a cochlear implant (CI), because SGCs provide the only known conduit between the implant electrode and the central auditory sys...

  • Review
  • Open Access
77 Citations
14,096 Views
13 Pages

Review of Bone Conduction Hearing Devices

  • Susan E. Ellsperman,
  • Emily M. Nairn and
  • Emily Z. Stucken

Bone conduction is an efficient pathway of sound transmission which can be harnessed to provide hearing amplification. Bone conduction hearing devices may be indicated when ear canal pathology precludes the use of a conventional hearing aid, as well...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,684 Views
7 Pages

Integrated Bimodal Fitting for Unilateral CI Users with Residual Contralateral Hearing

  • Gennaro Auletta,
  • Annamaria Franzè,
  • Carla Laria,
  • Carmine Piccolo,
  • Carmine Papa,
  • Pasquale Riccardi,
  • Davide Pisani,
  • Angelo Sarnelli,
  • Valeria Del Vecchio and
  • Rita Malesci
  • + 1 author

Background: The aim of this study was to compare, in users of bimodal cochlear implants, the performance obtained using their own hearing aids (adjusted with the standard NAL-NL1 fitting formula) with the performance using the Phonak Naìda Link Ultra...

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