The perceived attribute of a sound which corresponds to the physical attribute of intensity.
An abnormally disproportionate increase in the sensation of loudness in response to auditory stimuli of normal volume. COCHLEAR DISEASES; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASES; FACIAL NERVE DISEASES; STAPES SURGERY; and other disorders may be associated with this condition.
The process by which the nature and meaning of sensory stimuli are recognized and interpreted.
A nonspecific symptom of hearing disorder characterized by the sensation of buzzing, ringing, clicking, pulsations, and other noises in the ear. Objective tinnitus refers to noises generated from within the ear or adjacent structures that can be heard by other individuals. The term subjective tinnitus is used when the sound is audible only to the affected individual. Tinnitus may occur as a manifestation of COCHLEAR DISEASES; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASES; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; and other conditions.
The audibility limit of discriminating sound intensity and pitch.
The science pertaining to the interrelationship of psychologic phenomena and the individual's response to the physical properties of sound.
Use of sound to elicit a response in the nervous system.
The process whereby an utterance is decoded into a representation in terms of linguistic units (sequences of phonetic segments which combine to form lexical and grammatical morphemes).
Electronic hearing devices typically used for patients with normal outer and middle ear function, but defective inner ear function. In the COCHLEA, the hair cells (HAIR CELLS, VESTIBULAR) may be absent or damaged but there are residual nerve fibers. The device electrically stimulates the COCHLEAR NERVE to create sound sensation.
The process whereby auditory stimuli are selected, organized, and interpreted by the organism.
That component of SPEECH which gives the primary distinction to a given speaker's VOICE when pitch and loudness are excluded. It involves both phonatory and resonatory characteristics. Some of the descriptions of voice quality are harshness, breathiness and nasality.
A dimension of auditory sensation varying with cycles per second of the sound stimulus.
The acoustic aspects of speech in terms of frequency, intensity, and time.
A type of non-ionizing radiation in which energy is transmitted through solid, liquid, or gas as compression waves. Sound (acoustic or sonic) radiation with frequencies above the audible range is classified as ultrasonic. Sound radiation below the audible range is classified as infrasonic.
The selecting and organizing of visual stimuli based on the individual's past experience.
The graphic registration of the frequency and intensity of sounds, such as speech, infant crying, and animal vocalizations.
Wearable sound-amplifying devices that are intended to compensate for impaired hearing. These generic devices include air-conduction hearing aids and bone-conduction hearing aids. (UMDNS, 1999)
Tests of accuracy in pronouncing speech sounds, e.g., Iowa Pressure Articulation Test, Deep Test of Articulation, Templin-Darley Tests of Articulation, Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation, Screening Speech Articulation Test, Arizona Articulation Proficiency Scale.
The real or apparent movement of objects through the visual field.
Any sound which is unwanted or interferes with HEARING other sounds.
The ability or act of sensing and transducing ACOUSTIC STIMULATION to the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. It is also called audition.
A general term for the complete or partial loss of the ability to hear from one or both ears.
The perceiving of attributes, characteristics, and behaviors of one's associates or social groups.
Disorders of speech articulation caused by imperfect coordination of pharynx, larynx, tongue, or face muscles. This may result from CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; BRAIN STEM diseases; or diseases of the corticobulbar tracts (see PYRAMIDAL TRACTS). The cortical language centers are intact in this condition. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p489)
The cochlear part of the 8th cranial nerve (VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE). The cochlear nerve fibers originate from neurons of the SPIRAL GANGLION and project peripherally to cochlear hair cells and centrally to the cochlear nuclei (COCHLEAR NUCLEUS) of the BRAIN STEM. They mediate the sense of hearing.
Surgical insertion of an electronic hearing device (COCHLEAR IMPLANTS) with electrodes to the COCHLEAR NERVE in the inner ear to create sound sensation in patients with residual nerve fibers.
The ability to estimate periods of time lapsed or duration of time.
Measurement of hearing based on the use of pure tones of various frequencies and intensities as auditory stimuli.
The process of producing vocal sounds by means of VOCAL CORDS vibrating in an expiratory blast of air.
The interference of one perceptual stimulus with another causing a decrease or lessening in perceptual effectiveness.
A general term for the complete loss of the ability to hear from both ears.
Perception of three-dimensionality.
Communication through a system of conventional vocal symbols.
The ability to differentiate tones.
Sound that expresses emotion through rhythm, melody, and harmony.
Complete loss of phonation due to organic disease of the larynx or to nonorganic (i.e., psychogenic) causes.
Partial hearing loss in both ears.
The sensory discrimination of a pattern shape or outline.
Measurement of parameters of the speech product such as vocal tone, loudness, pitch, voice quality, articulation, resonance, phonation, phonetic structure and prosody.
The electric response evoked in the CEREBRAL CORTEX by ACOUSTIC STIMULATION or stimulation of the AUDITORY PATHWAYS.
The process by which PAIN is recognized and interpreted by the brain.
The science or study of speech sounds and their production, transmission, and reception, and their analysis, classification, and transcription. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
Signals for an action; that specific portion of a perceptual field or pattern of stimuli to which a subject has learned to respond.
Ability to make speech sounds that are recognizable.
The branch of physics that deals with sound and sound waves. In medicine it is often applied in procedures in speech and hearing studies. With regard to the environment, it refers to the characteristics of a room, auditorium, theatre, building, etc. that determines the audibility or fidelity of sounds in it. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
Procedures for correcting HEARING DISORDERS.
Persons with any degree of loss of hearing that has an impact on their activities of daily living or that requires special assistance or intervention.