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Papers

(The median citation count of Trends in Hearing is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Children With Bilateral Cochlear Implants Show Emerging Spatial Hearing of Stationary and Moving Sound	55
Editorial: Cochlear Implants and Music	35
Two Tests for Quantifying Aided Hearing at Low- and High-Input Levels	30
Spectral Weighting of Monaural Cues for Auditory Localization in Sagittal Planes	27
Hearing Through Bone Conduction Headsets	23
Spatio-temporal Integration of Speech Reflections in Hearing-Impaired Listeners	22
Hearing Thresholds for Unscreened U.S. Adults: Data From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011–2012, 2015–2016, and 2017–2020	21
Attention Mobilization as a Modulator of Listening Effort: Evidence From Pupillometry	19
The Effect of Breathy Vocal Quality on Speech Intelligibility and Listening Effort in Background Noise	19
Combining Cardiovascular and Pupil Features Using k-Nearest Neighbor Classifiers to Assess Task Demand, Social Context, and Sentence Accuracy During Listening	18
The Effect of Collaborative Triadic Conversations in Noise on Decision-Making in a General-Knowledge Task	18
Objectively Measuring Audiovisual Effects in Noise Using Virtual Human Speakers	16
Perceptual Learning of Noise-Vocoded Speech Under Divided Attention	16
Predicting 9-Year Language Ability from Preschool Speech Recognition in Noise in Children Using Cochlear Implants	15
Is Recognition of Speech in Noise Related to Memory Disruption Caused by Irrelevant Sound?	15
Acoustic Realism of Clinical Speech-in-Noise Testing: Parameter Ranges of Speech-Likeness, Interaural Coherence, and Interaural Differences	13
On the Feasibility of Using Behavioral Listening Effort Test Methods to Evaluate Auditory Performance in Cochlear Implant Users	13
Evaluating Selective Apical Electrode Deactivation for Improving Cochlear Implant Outcomes	12
Who Said That? The Effect of Hearing Ability on Following Sequential Utterances From Varying Talkers in Noise	11
Effect of Titrated Exposure to Non-Traumatic Noise on Unvoiced Speech Recognition in Human Listeners with Normal Audiological Profiles	10
Strength of Attentional Modulation on Cortical Auditory Evoked Responses Correlates with Speech-in-Noise Performance in Bimodal Cochlear Implant Users	10
Effectiveness of Auditory Training in Experienced Hearing-Aid Users, and an Exploration of Their Health-Related Quality of Life and Coping Strategies	9
Benefit of Hearing-Aid Amplification and Signal Enhancement for Speech Reception in Complex Listening Situations	9
Classification of Acoustic Hearing Preservation After Cochlear Implantation Using Electrocochleography	9
Safety and Early Outcomes of Cochlear Implantation of Nucleus Devices in Infants: A Multi-Centre Study	8

Preferred Strength of Noise Reduction for Normally Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Listeners	8
Sound Source Selection Based on Head Movements in Natural Group Conversation	8
Susceptibility to Steady Noise Largely Explains Susceptibility to Dynamic Maskers in Cochlear Implant Users, but not in Normal-Hearing Listeners	8
Does Intraoperative Extracochlear Electrocochleography Correlate With Postoperative Audiometric Hearing Thresholds in Cochlear Implant Surgery? A Retrospective Analysis of Cochlear Monitoring	8
Repairing Misperceptions of Words Early in a Sentence is More Effortful Than Repairing Later Words, Especially for Listeners With Cochlear Implants	8
Comparing the Auditory Distance and Externalization of Virtual Sound Sources Simulated Using Nonindividualized Stimuli	8
Previous Mental Load and Incentives Influence Anticipatory Arousal as Indexed by the Baseline Pupil Diameter in a Speech-in-Noise Task	7
Listening Effort in Quiet and Noisy Environments in the Daily Life of Adults With Hearing Aids: An Extended Version of the Effort Assessment Scale (EEAS)	7
Development and Validation of a Mandarin Chinese Adaptation of AzBio Sentence Test (CMnBio)	7
Challenging Times for Cochlear Implant Users – Effect of Face Masks on Audiovisual Speech Understanding during the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
On the Effect of High Stimulation Rates on Temporal Loudness Integration in Cochlear Implant Users	7
Evaluation of deep marginal feedback cancellation for hearing aids using speech and music	7
A Step Toward Precision Audiology: Individual Differences and Characteristic Profiles From Auditory Perceptual and Cognitive Abilities	6
Assessing Speech Audibility via Syllabic-Rate Neural Responses in Adults and Children With and Without Hearing Loss	6
Perceptual Consequences of Cochlear Deafferentation in Humans	6
How Does Inattention Influence the Robustness and Efficiency of Adaptive Procedures in the Context of Psychoacoustic Assessments via Smartphone?	6
U.S. Population Data on Self-Reported Trouble Hearing and Hearing-Aid Use in Adults: National Health Interview Survey, 2007–2018	6
Estimating Pitch Information From Simulated Cochlear Implant Signals With Deep Neural Networks	6
Measuring and Modeling Cue Dependent Spatial Release from Masking in the Presence of Typical Delays in the Treatment of Hearing Loss	6
(Why) Do Transparent Hearing Devices Impair Speech Perception in Collocated Noise?	5
Baseline pupil size encodes task-related information and modulates the task-evoked response in a speech-in-noise task	5
Externalization of Speech When Listening With Hearing Aids	5
Remixing Preferences for Western Instrumental Classical Music of Bilateral Cochlear Implant Users	5
Alpha-Band Dynamics of Hearing Aid Wearers Performing the Repeat-Recall Test (RRT)	5
Visually biased Perception in Cochlear Implant Users: A Study of the McGurk and Sound-Induced Flash Illusions	5
Assessment of Speech Processing and Listening Effort Associated With Speech-on-Speech Masking Using the Visual World Paradigm and Pupillometry	5
Visual Speech Improves Older and Younger Adults’ Response Time and Accuracy for Speech Comprehension in Noise	5
The Concurrent OLSA Test: A Method for Speech Recognition in Multi-talker Situations at Fixed SNR	5
Validation of a Self-Fitting Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Intervention Compared with a Clinician-Fitted Hearing Aid Intervention: A Within-Subjects Crossover Design Using the Same Device	5
Performance in an Audiovisual Selective Attention Task Using Speech-Like Stimuli Depends on the Talker Identities, But Not Temporal Coherence	5
Perceptual Matching of Room Acoustics for Auditory Augmented Reality in Small Rooms - Literature Review and Theoretical Framework	5
Comprehensive Measurements and Analyses of Ear Canal Geometry From Late Infancy Through Late Adulthood: Age-Related Variations and Implications for Basic Science and Audiological Measurements	5
Some Considerations for the Use of the Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit (APHAB) as a Hearing-Aid Outcome Measure	5
Corrigendum	5
Hearing Aid Amplification Improves Postural Control for Older Adults With Hearing Loss When Other Sensory Cues Are Impoverished	5
Comparing Fixed and Individualized Channel Interaction Coefficients for Speech Perception With Dynamic Focusing Cochlear Implant Strategies	5
Closedness of Acoustic Coupling and Audiological Measures Are Associated with Individual Speech-in-Noise Benefit From Noise Reduction in Hearing Aids	5
Feasibility of Diagnosing Dead Regions Using Auditory Steady-State Responses to an Exponentially Amplitude Modulated Tone in Threshold Equalizing Notched Noise, Assessed Using Normal-Hearing Participa	5
Temporal Cues in the Judgment of Music Emotion for Normal and Cochlear Implant Listeners	4
Auditory Learning and Generalization in Older Adults: Evidence from Voice Discrimination Training	4
Listening Preferences of New Adult Hearing Aid Users: A Registered, Double-Blind, Randomized, Mixed-Methods Clinical Trial of Initial Versus Real-Ear Fit	4
Adapting to the Sound of Music — Development of Music Discrimination Skills in Recently Implanted CI Users	4
Neural Decoding of the Speech Envelope: Effects of Intelligibility and Spectral Degradation	4
The Relationship of Pitch Discrimination with Segregation of Tonal and Speech Streams for Cochlear Implant Users	4
Estimating Cochlear Implant Users’ Sound Localization Abilities With Two Loudspeakers	4
Evaluation of a Fast Method to Measure High-Frequency Audiometry Based on Bayesian Learning	4
Limitations on Temporal Processing by Cochlear Implant Users: A Compilation of Viewpoints	4
Individual Differences in the Recognition of Spectrally Degraded Speech: Associations With Neurocognitive Functions in Adult Cochlear Implant Users and With Noise-Vocoded Simulations	4
Diagnosing Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Sustained During Military Service Using Deep Neural Networks	4
Revealing Perceptional and Cognitive Mechanisms in Static and Dynamic Cocktail Party Listening by Means of Error Analyses	4

Pupil Responses During Interactive Conversation	4
Exploring the Correlations Between Measures of Listening Effort in Adults and Children: A Systematic Review with Narrative Synthesis	3
Cochlear Tuning in Early Aging Estimated with Three Methods	3
Speech Recognition and Listening Effort of Meaningful Sentences Using Synthetic Speech	3
Reaction Time Sensitivity to Spectrotemporal Modulations of Sound	3
U.S. Population Data on Hearing Loss, Trouble Hearing, and Hearing-Device Use in Adults: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011–12, 2015–16, and 2017–20	3
Human Auditory Ecology: Extending Hearing Research to the Perception of Natural Soundscapes by Humans in Rapidly Changing Environments	3
Quantifying the Impact of Auditory Deafferentation on Speech Perception	3
Single-Channel Focused Thresholds Relate to Vowel Identification in Pediatric and Adult Cochlear Implant Listeners	3
Contextual Lateralization Based on Interaural Level Differences Is Preshaped by the Auditory Periphery and Predominantly Immune Against Sequential Segregation	3
Arabic Digits-in-Noise Tests: Relations to Hearing Loss and Comparison of Diotic and Antiphasic Versions	3
Is Noise Exposure Associated With Impaired Extended High Frequency Hearing Despite a Normal Audiogram? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	3
The Impact of Hearing Aids on Listening Effort and Listening-Related Fatigue - Investigations in a Virtual Realistic Listening Environment	3
Head and Eye Movements Reveal Compensatory Strategies for Acute Binaural Deficits During Sound Localization	3
An Exploration of the Memory Performance in Older Adult Hearing Aid Users on the Integrated Digit-in-Noise Test	3
Performance and Reliability Evaluation of an Automated Bone-Conduction Audiometry Using Machine Learning	3
Effects of Hearing Loss on Interaural Time Difference Sensitivity at Low and High Frequencies	3
The Effect of Stimulation Position and Ear Canal Occlusion on Perception of Bone Conducted Sound	3
Judging the Number and Gender of Talkers Present in an Auditory Scene Aided by Acoustic Beamforming	3
No Link Between Speech-in-Noise Perception and Auditory Sensory Memory – Evidence From a Large Cohort of Older and Younger Listeners	3
Automated Measurement of Speech Recognition, Reaction Time, and Speech Rate and Their Relation to Self-Reported Listening Effort for Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Listeners Using various Maskers	3
Conversational Dynamics in Task Dialogue Between Interlocutors With and Without Hearing Impairment	3
Hearing aid Experiences of Adult Hearing aid Owners During and After Fitting: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies	3
Revisiting Auditory Profiling: Can Cognitive Factors Improve the Prediction of Aided Speech-in-Noise Outcome?	2
Speech Intelligibility in Reverberation is Reduced During Self-Rotation	2
Extending Subcortical EEG Responses to Continuous Speech to the Sound-Field	2
A Systematic Review of the Effect of Hearing Aids on Static and Dynamic Balance in Adults with Hearing Impairment	2
Sixty Years of Frequency-Domain Monaural Speech Enhancement: From Traditional to Deep Learning Methods	2
Grouping by Time and Pitch Facilitates Free but Not Cued Recall for Word Lists in Normally-Hearing Listeners	2
Language-Independent Hearing Screening – Increasing the Feasibility of a Hearing Screening Self-Test at School-Entry	2
Effects of Monaural Temporal Electrode Asynchrony and Channel Interactions in Bilateral and Unilateral Cochlear-Implant Stimulation	2
Self-motion with Hearing Impairment and (Directional) Hearing Aids	2
ADT Network: A Novel Nonlinear Method for Decoding Speech Envelopes From EEG Signals	2
Musical Emotion Categorization with Vocoders of Varying Temporal and Spectral Content	2
Automated Speech Audiometry: Can It Work Using Open-Source Pre-Trained Kaldi-NL Automatic Speech Recognition?	2
Beamforming and Single-Microphone Noise Reduction: Effects on Signal-to-Noise Ratio and Speech Recognition of Bimodal Cochlear Implant Users	2
Robust and Efficient Online Auditory Psychophysics	2
Musical Interval Perception With a Cochlear Implant Alone and With a Contralateral Normal Hearing Ear	2
Relationships Between Speech, Spatial and Qualities of Hearing Short Form SSQ12 Item Scores and their Use in Guiding Rehabilitation for Cochlear Implant Recipients	2
Adaptation to Reverberation for Speech Perception: A Systematic Review	2
Differences in Auditory Perception Between Young and Older Adults When Controlling for Differences in Hearing Loss and Cognition	2
Enhanced Place Specificity of the Parallel Auditory Brainstem Response: A Modeling Study	2
Plasticity After Hearing Rehabilitation in the Aging Brain	2
Corrigendum to “Do Hearing Aids Address Real-World Hearing Difficulties for Adults With Mild Hearing Impairment? Results From a Pilot Study Using Ecological Momentary Assessment.”	2
Influence of Noise Reduction on Ocular Markers of Listening Effort in Hearing Aid Users in Darkness and Ambient Light	2
Development of the Musi-CI Training, A Musical Listening Training for Cochlear Implant Users: A Participatory Action Research Approach	2
Comparing Clinically Applicable Behavioral and Electrophysiological Measures of Speech Detection, Discrimination, and Comprehension	2
Considerations for Fitting Cochlear Implants Bimodally and to the Single-Sided Deaf	2
Modification of a Method for Diagnosing Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Sustained During Military Service	2
Rapid Assessment of Subjective Hearing Complaints With a Modified Version of the Tinnitus and Hearing Survey	2
Understanding the Lombard Effect for Mandarin: Relation Between Speech Recognition Thresholds and Acoustic Parameters	2
Time-specific Components of Pupil Responses Reveal Alternations in Effort Allocation Caused by Memory Task Demands During Speech Identification in Noise	2