fNIRS Assessment of Speech Comprehension in Children with Normal Hearing and Children with Hearing Aids in Virtual Acoustic Environments: Pilot Data and Practical Recommendations

• Main Authors: Laura Bell (Author), Z. Ellen Peng (Author), Florian Pausch (Author), Vanessa Reindl (Author), Christiane Neuschaefer-Rube (Author), Janina Fels (Author), Kerstin Konrad (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The integration of virtual acoustic environments (VAEs) with functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) offers novel avenues to investigate behavioral and neural processes of speech-in-noise (SIN) comprehension in complex auditory scenes. Particularly in children with hearing aids (HAs), the comb...