Gain loss boosts modulation sensitivity in noise despite reduced temporal coding

Evidence

If the NB condition reflects a temporal coding deficit, then it appeared not to dictate performance in the BB condition for the HI listeners, suggesting that perhaps the overall loss of compression due to cochlear gain loss would enhance modulation sensitivity such that a fixed-level BB noise did not degrade performance substantially, despite the reduced temporal coding observed from the EFR measures. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5872

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: ‘the hearing loss that helps you hear’ — the deficits that paradoxically improve supra-threshold perception.