Publications by authors named "Esther Wiersinga-Post"
Objective: Investigate the association between age-related hearing loss and reduced peripheral vestibular function using paired assessments of high-frequency hearing and horizontal semicircular canal (HSC) function. We hypothesized that age-related high-frequency hearing loss would be correlated with reduced HSC function and, therefore, useful to predict age-related vestibular hypofunction.
Design: We conducted a single center, retrospective cross-sectional study in a tertiary/academic referral hospital.
The tinnitus spectrum is a psycho-acoustic metric of tinnitus. Previous work found a tight relation between the spectrum and the tone audiogram. This suggests that the spectrum and the audiogram provide essentially the same information, and the added value of the spectrum is limited.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAudiovisual processing was studied in a functional magnetic resonance imaging study using the McGurk effect. Perceptual responses and the brain activity patterns were measured as a function of audiovisual delay. In several cortical and subcortical brain areas, BOLD responses correlated negatively with the perception of the McGurk effect.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Several studies on auditory temporal-order processing showed gender differences. Women needed longer inter-stimulus intervals than men when indicating the temporal order of two clicks presented to the left and right ear. In this study, we examined whether we could reproduce these results in order to further investigate the differences in auditory processing between men and women.
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- A two-alternative forced-choice experiment tested how people perceive pitches between two sounds, A and B, which were made from multiple harmonics at frequencies between 100 to 250 Hz.
- The missing fundamental of sound A was higher than sound B, and the perception of pitch was influenced by whether the harmonics were resolved or unresolved.
- Results showed that when harmonics are clearly resolved, the missing fundamental dominates pitch perception, but as they become unresolved, the spectrally cued pitch took over, with significant variation in pitch detection among subjects.