Hearing-impaired perception studies illuminate the mechanisms behind normal hearing

Evidence

I am writing this textbook after teaching psychological acoustics (commonly referred to as psychoacoustics) to clinical audiology students for over 15 years. Each year I have taught this course I have struggled to find a text appropriate for these students. No doubt, there are excellent texts available on the topic of psychoacoustics. However, all modern books on the topic cover only normal auditory perception and contain little to no review of perception by listeners with hearing loss. Yet, I argue that these students, and those studying auditory perception more generally, should have some exposure to the perceptual deficits imposed by sensorineural hearing loss. Not only will having this information help clinical audiologists to better care for their patients, but studies evaluating perception in listeners with sensorineural hearing loss also have contributed to our understanding of the mechanisms responsible for normal auditory perception. — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 19

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s stated interest in normal vs. impaired hearing perception — this is the book’s core framing thesis. — connects to: Breakdowns in bodily experience reveal the mechanisms of normal perception — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 736