20Q: The Importance of Psychoacoustics in Clinical Audiology
Course: #35293Level: Introductory 1 Hour 1090 Reviews
A discussion of psychoacoustics as it relates to clinical audiology, written in an engaging Q & A format.
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Learning Outcomes
- After this course, participants will be able to discuss the role that psychoacoustics has in modern audiological assessment.
- After this course, participants will be able to describe the perceptual deficits experienced by listeners with sensorineural hearing loss.
- After this course, participants will be able to explain how amplification affects perception and how psychoacoustics might influence audiological rehabilitation.
Course created on August 17, 2020
Agenda
| 0-5 Minutes | Introduction |
| 5-20 Minutes | Psychoacoustics and audiological assessments |
| 20-40 Minutes | Psychoacoustics and auditory disorders including sensorineural hearing loss |
| 40-50 Minutes | Amplification and psychoacoustics |
| 50-60 Minutes | Psychoacoustics and its application to aural rehabilitation |
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1090 ReviewsPresented By
Jennifer Lentz
PhD
Jennifer J. Lentz is a professor of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences and is currently the chair of the department at Indian University. She holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and received postdoctoral training in research audiology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She has been on faculty at Indiana University since 2002. Her current research is in the areas of complex sound perception by listeners with hearing loss and the psychoacoustics of tinnitus. She recently served as an associate editor for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (Hearing Section). She regularly serves on grant panels for the Veterans Health Administration, the Department of Defense, and the National Institutes of Health. She is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), has served on the Physiological and Psychological Acoustics Technical Committee, and is currently a member of the Women in Acoustics Committee and the Committee on History and Archives. She has also recently written a psychoacoustics textbook targeted at students in AuD programs titled "Psychoacoustics: An introduction to the perception of normal and impaired hearing with audiology applications", that is published by Plural Publishing.
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