Hearing aid users can surpass age-normal peers in intensity sensitivity

Evidence

Hearing aid users wearing their hearing aid generally showed the same pattern of affect ratings as participants with age-normal hearing, especially for the valence dimension. However, for arousal ratings, those wearing a hearing aid were actually more sensitive to intensity differences than participants in the reference group. This may be because hearing in the reference group was normal for their age, but still implied elevated high-frequency thresholds. Consequently, older adults in the reference group were less sensitive, at least to some acoustic differences, than the hearing aid users. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1377 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Age-normal hearing can be less sensitive to intensity than aided impaired hearing — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1377; Wearing hearing aids can make users more intensity-sensitive than age-normal hearing peers.; Age-normal hearing still involves high-frequency loss that dulls intensity sensitivity (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Wearing hearing aids can make users more intensity-sensitive than age-normal hearing peers. #expands (0.95)
• Age-normal hearing can be less sensitive to intensity than aided impaired hearing #corroborates (0.93) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1377