Hearing loss compresses category curves but can preserve sharp perceptual boundaries.
Evidence
Listener HL11 (4th row) has LDL that is within the ranges of a NH listener; the higher threshold level causes the spacing between category boundary curves to be compressed horizontally. Despite this compression, this listener with HL has well-defined perceptual boundaries between categories (i.e., sharply-sloped boundary curves). — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 2549
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
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- Elevated hearing thresholds and lower LDLs compress loudness category spacing horizontally. (similarity 0.92)
- Noise-induced hearing loss flattens temporal masking valleys and breaks the threshold triad alignment (similarity 0.83)
- Noise-induced hearing loss reduces several independent markers of cochlear compression (similarity 0.83)
- Hearing loss squeezes the full loudness range into a much smaller dynamic range (similarity 0.82)
- Cochlear gain loss can compensate for neural coding deficits (similarity 0.82)
- Both conductive and sensorineural damage drastically alters absolute threshold curves. (similarity 0.82)
- Hearing thresholds vary individually but share a common perceptual order (similarity 0.81)
- Outer hair cell damage removes cochlear compressive nonlinearity (similarity 0.81)
- Wider auditory filters and steeper cochlear compression reduce noise-induced hearing loss. (similarity 0.81)
- Listeners with hearing loss form a heterogeneous perceptual group, not a single category (similarity 0.80)
- Cochlear neuropathy harms supra-threshold encoding because noise targets high-threshold auditory fibers (similarity 0.80)
- Elevated hearing thresholds degrade speech perception by rendering key cues inaudible (similarity 0.80)
- Hearing loss reduces cochlear suppression and compressive nonlinearity together (similarity 0.80)
- Impaired frequency selectivity and lost suppression increase masking and reduce spectral contrasts (similarity 0.80)