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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Hearing Through Bone Conduction Headsets	90
Reduced Eye Blinking During Sentence Listening Reflects Increased Cognitive Load in Challenging Auditory Conditions	61
Spectral Weighting of Monaural Cues for Auditory Localization in Sagittal Planes	32
Pupillary Responses During a Dual Task: Effect of Noise Attenuation on the Timing of Cognitive Resource Allocation	25
Association of Tinnitus With Speech Recognition and Executive Functions in Older Adults	23
Children With Bilateral Cochlear Implants Show Emerging Spatial Hearing of Stationary and Moving Sound	21
Two Tests for Quantifying Aided Hearing at Low- and High-Input Levels	19
Editorial: Cochlear Implants and Music	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	16
The Effect of Breathy Vocal Quality on Speech Intelligibility and Listening Effort in Background Noise	15
Objective Evaluation of a Deep Learning-Based Noise Reduction Algorithm for Hearing Aids Under Diverse Fitting and Listening Conditions	14
Attention Mobilization as a Modulator of Listening Effort: Evidence From Pupillometry	13
Hearing Thresholds for Unscreened U.S. Adults: Data From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011–2012, 2015–2016, and 2017–2020	12
On the Feasibility of Using Behavioral Listening Effort Test Methods to Evaluate Auditory Performance in Cochlear Implant Users	11
Rapid Brain Adaptation to Hearing Amplification: A Randomized Crossover Trial of Personal Sound Amplification Products	11
Is Recognition of Speech in Noise Related to Memory Disruption Caused by Irrelevant Sound?	10
A Binaural Front End for Speech Intelligibility Models: Application to the Hearing-Aid Speech Perception Index (HASPI)	10
The Effect of Temporal Misalignment Between Acoustic and Simulated Electric Signals on the Time Compression Thresholds of Normal-Hearing Listeners	10
Objectively Measuring Audiovisual Effects in Noise Using Virtual Human Speakers	10
Acoustic Realism of Clinical Speech-in-Noise Testing: Parameter Ranges of Speech-Likeness, Interaural Coherence, and Interaural Differences	10
Classification of Acoustic Hearing Preservation After Cochlear Implantation Using Electrocochleography	9
Benefit of Hearing-Aid Amplification and Signal Enhancement for Speech Reception in Complex Listening Situations	9
Evaluating Selective Apical Electrode Deactivation for Improving Cochlear Implant Outcomes	9
Perceptual Learning of Noise-Vocoded Speech Under Divided Attention	9

Who Said That? The Effect of Hearing Ability on Following Sequential Utterances From Varying Talkers in Noise	9
Voice Familiarization Training Improves Speech Intelligibility and Reduces Listening Effort	9
Effectiveness of Auditory Training in Experienced Hearing-Aid Users, and an Exploration of Their Health-Related Quality of Life and Coping Strategies	8
Does Intraoperative Extracochlear Electrocochleography Correlate With Postoperative Audiometric Hearing Thresholds in Cochlear Implant Surgery? A Retrospective Analysis of Cochlear Monitoring	8
When the First Pulse Fades: 75% Reduction in Precedence Effect in Cochlear Implanted Rats	8
Masked-speech Recognition Using Human and Synthetic Cloned Speech	8
Minimum Audible Angle and the Acoustic Change Complex Elicited by Azimuthal Shifts in Low-Frequency Sounds: Effects of Age	8
Preferred Strength of Noise Reduction for Normally Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Listeners	8
Safety and Early Outcomes of Cochlear Implantation of Nucleus Devices in Infants: A Multi-Centre Study	8
The Relation Between Sustained Listening Under Difficult Conditions and Behavioral, Subjective, and Physiological Indicators of Fatigue	8
Repairing Misperceptions of Words Early in a Sentence is More Effortful Than Repairing Later Words, Especially for Listeners With Cochlear Implants	8
Sweet-Spot Compression: An Amplification Strategy for Improving Listening Outcomes at Moderate to High Levels	8
On the Effect of High Stimulation Rates on Temporal Loudness Integration in Cochlear Implant Users	7
Previous Mental Load and Incentives Influence Anticipatory Arousal as Indexed by the Baseline Pupil Diameter in a Speech-in-Noise Task	7
How Does Inattention Influence the Robustness and Efficiency of Adaptive Procedures in the Context of Psychoacoustic Assessments via Smartphone?	7
Long-Term Stability of Electrical Stimulation in Children with Bilateral Cochlear Implants	7
Evaluation of deep marginal feedback cancellation for hearing aids using speech and music	7
Perception of Recorded Music With Hearing Aids: Compression Differentially Affects Musical Scene Analysis and Musical Sound Quality	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
A Step Toward Precision Audiology: Individual Differences and Characteristic Profiles From Auditory Perceptual and Cognitive Abilities	7
Susceptibility to Steady Noise Largely Explains Susceptibility to Dynamic Maskers in Cochlear Implant Users, but not in Normal-Hearing Listeners	7
Hearing Aid Use is Associated with Faster Visual Lexical Decision	7
Assessing Speech Audibility via Syllabic-Rate Neural Responses in Adults and Children With and Without Hearing Loss	6
Estimating Pitch Information From Simulated Cochlear Implant Signals With Deep Neural Networks	6
Perceptual Consequences of Cochlear Deafferentation in Humans	6
U.S. Population Data on Self-Reported Trouble Hearing and Hearing-Aid Use in Adults: National Health Interview Survey, 2007–2018	6
Assessment of Speech Processing and Listening Effort Associated With Speech-on-Speech Masking Using the Visual World Paradigm and Pupillometry	6
(Why) Do Transparent Hearing Devices Impair Speech Perception in Collocated Noise?	6
Comparing the Auditory Distance and Externalization of Virtual Sound Sources Simulated Using Nonindividualized Stimuli	6
Externalization of Speech When Listening With Hearing Aids	5
Altered Paired-Click Auditory Brainstem Responses in Normal-Hearing Young Adults With Frequent Loud Sound Exposure	5
Tonal Tinnitus Does Not Interfere with Tone Detection at the Tinnitus Pitch-Matched Frequency	5
Visually biased Perception in Cochlear Implant Users: A Study of the McGurk and Sound-Induced Flash Illusions	5
Some Considerations for the Use of the Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit (APHAB) as a Hearing-Aid Outcome Measure	5
Corrigendum	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
Integrative Modeling of Individual Differences Recognizing Speech in Noise by Hearing-Impaired Adults	5
Alpha-Band Dynamics of Hearing Aid Wearers Performing the Repeat-Recall Test (RRT)	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
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
Remixing Preferences for Western Instrumental Classical Music of Bilateral Cochlear Implant Users	5
Diagnosing Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Sustained During Military Service Using Deep Neural Networks	4
Temporal Cues in the Judgment of Music Emotion for Normal and Cochlear Implant Listeners	4
Closedness of Acoustic Coupling and Audiological Measures Are Associated with Individual Speech-in-Noise Benefit From Noise Reduction in Hearing Aids	4
Cochlear Tuning in Early Aging Estimated with Three Methods	4
Human Auditory Ecology: Extending Hearing Research to the Perception of Natural Soundscapes by Humans in Rapidly Changing Environments	4
Limitations on Temporal Processing by Cochlear Implant Users: A Compilation of Viewpoints	4
Contextual Lateralization Based on Interaural Level Differences Is Preshaped by the Auditory Periphery and Predominantly Immune Against Sequential Segregation	4
Evaluation of a Fast Method to Measure High-Frequency Audiometry Based on Bayesian Learning	4

Adapting to the Sound of Music — Development of Music Discrimination Skills in Recently Implanted CI Users	4
Developmental Trajectories and Influencing Factors of Aural/Oral Performance in Mandarin-Speaking Children with Cochlear Implants Using the PEACH Scale	4
Assessing Visual Contributions to the Perception of Speech in Noise	4
Pupil Responses During Interactive Conversation	4
The Relationship of Pitch Discrimination with Segregation of Tonal and Speech Streams for Cochlear Implant Users	4
No Link Between Speech-in-Noise Perception and Auditory Sensory Memory – Evidence From a Large Cohort of Older and Younger Listeners	4
A Web-Based Listening Test System for Cochlear Implant Research and its Validation for Remote Testing	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
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
Benefit of Amplification at Low Input Levels in Normal-Hearing Listeners	4
Performance in an Audiovisual Selective Attention Task Using Speech-Like Stimuli Depends on the Talker Identities, But Not Temporal Coherence	4
Cognitive Shifting Ability Does Not Predict Self-Perceived Hearing Difficulties in Adult Hearing-Aid Users	4
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	4
Is Noise Exposure Associated With Impaired Extended High Frequency Hearing Despite a Normal Audiogram? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	4
Toward an Extended Classification of Noise-Distortion Preferences by Modeling Longitudinal Dynamics of Listening Choices	4
Neural Decoding of the Speech Envelope: Effects of Intelligibility and Spectral Degradation	4
Estimating Cochlear Implant Users’ Sound Localization Abilities With Two Loudspeakers	4
An Exploration of the Memory Performance in Older Adult Hearing Aid Users on the Integrated Digit-in-Noise Test	3
Quantifying the Impact of Auditory Deafferentation on Speech Perception	3
The First Cadenza Challenge: Perceptual Evaluation of Machine Learning Systems to Improve Audio Quality of Popular Music for Those with Hearing Loss	3
The Time Course of the Pupillary Response to Auditory Emotions in Pseudospeech, Music, and Vocalizations	3
Judging the Number and Gender of Talkers Present in an Auditory Scene Aided by Acoustic Beamforming	3
Electrophysiological Assessment of Semantic Processing of Cochlear Implant Users Using an Audiobook	3
Effects of Monaural Temporal Electrode Asynchrony and Channel Interactions in Bilateral and Unilateral Cochlear-Implant Stimulation	3
Own-Voice Perception with Different Processing Delays in Open-Fit Hearing Aids	3
Performance and Reliability Evaluation of an Automated Bone-Conduction Audiometry Using Machine Learning	3
Exploring the Correlations Between Measures of Listening Effort in Adults and Children: A Systematic Review with Narrative Synthesis	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
Arabic Digits-in-Noise Tests: Relations to Hearing Loss and Comparison of Diotic and Antiphasic Versions	3
Effects of Dual-Electrode Asynchrony on Temporal Pitch Discrimination With Amplitude Modulation and Short Inter-Pulse Intervals in Cochlear Implant Listeners	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
Conversational Dynamics in Task Dialogue Between Interlocutors With and Without Hearing Impairment	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
Identifying Hearing Difficulty Moments in Conversational Audio	3
Externalization of Virtual Sound Sources With Bone and Air Conduction Stimulation	2
The Effects of Daily Life Auditory Demands on Listening Effort, Affect, and Fatigue as a Function of Hearing Loss	2
Language-agnostic, Automated Assessment of Listeners’ Speech Recall Using Large Language Models	2
Adaptation to Noise in Spectrotemporal Modulation Detection and Word Recognition	2
Leveraging Monaural Exposures to Reveal Early Effects of Noise: Evidence from Police Radio Ear-Piece Use	2
Extending Subcortical EEG Responses to Continuous Speech to the Sound-Field	2
At-Home Auditory Assessment Using Portable Automated Rapid Testing (PART) to Understand Self-Reported Hearing Difficulties	2
Sixty Years of Frequency-Domain Monaural Speech Enhancement: From Traditional to Deep Learning Methods	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
Integrating Audiological Datasets via Federated Merging of Auditory Profiles	2
Speech Intelligibility in Reverberation is Reduced During Self-Rotation	2
Bimodal Cochlear Implants: Measurement of the Localization Performance as a Function of Device Latency Difference	2
Toward a Real-World Technical Test Battery for Remote Microphone Systems Used with Hearing Prostheses	2
Audio Quality Perception of Hearing-Impaired Listeners in Complex Acoustic Environments	2
Auditory Spatial Bisection of Blind and Normally Sighted Individuals in Free Field and Virtual Acoustics	2
Strategic Pauses Relieve Listeners from the Effort of Listening to Fast Speech: Data Limited and Resource Limited Processes in Narrative Recall by Adult Users of Cochlear Implants	2
Plasticity After Hearing Rehabilitation in the Aging Brain	2
Influence of Noise Reduction on Ocular Markers of Listening Effort in Hearing Aid Users in Darkness and Ambient Light	2
Time-specific Components of Pupil Responses Reveal Alternations in Effort Allocation Caused by Memory Task Demands During Speech Identification in Noise	2
Rapid Assessment of Subjective Hearing Complaints With a Modified Version of the Tinnitus and Hearing Survey	2
Grouping by Time and Pitch Facilitates Free but Not Cued Recall for Word Lists in Normally-Hearing Listeners	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
Neural-WDRC: A Deep Learning Wide Dynamic Range Compression Method Combined With Controllable Noise Reduction for Hearing Aids	2
Predicting Spectro-Temporal Modulation Detection Thresholds With a Functional Auditory Model	2
Emotional Response to Pleasant Sounds Plays a Role in the Effectiveness of the Positive Focus Intervention	2
Automated Speech Audiometry: Can It Work Using Open-Source Pre-Trained Kaldi-NL Automatic Speech Recognition?	2
Understanding the Lombard Effect for Mandarin: Relation Between Speech Recognition Thresholds and Acoustic Parameters	2
Effect of Avatar Head Movements on Communication Behavior and Subjective Evaluations of Presence and Success in Triadic Conversations	2
Development of the Musi-CI Training, A Musical Listening Training for Cochlear Implant Users: A Participatory Action Research Approach	2
Enhanced Place Specificity of the Parallel Auditory Brainstem Response: A Modeling Study	2
Adaptation to Reverberation for Speech Perception: A Systematic Review	2
ALICE: Improved Speech in Noise Understanding with Self-guided Hearing Care	2