Publications
Contact
Tobias Neher, PhD
Associate Professor in Audiology
Institute of Clinical Research
University of Southern Denmark
5230 Odense M, Dänemark
Email: tneher(at)health.sdu.dk
Publications
JOURNAL PAPERS
Habicht J, Behler O, Kollmeier B & Neher T (2019). "Exploring differences in speech processing among older hearing-impaired listeners with or without hearing aid experience: Eye-tracking and fMRI measurements", Front Neurosci, 13:420, DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00420
Mirkovic B, Debener S, Schmidt J, Jaeger M & Neher T (2019). "Effects of directional sound processing and listener's motivation on EEG responses to continuous noisy speech: Do normal-hearing and aided hearing-impaired listeners differ?", Hear Res, 377, 260-270, DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2019.04.005
Lundbeck M, Grimm G, Hohmann V, Bramsløw L & Neher T (2018). "Effects of directional hearing aid settings on different laboratory measures of spatial awareness perception", Audiol Res, 8:215, DOI: doi.org/10.4081/audiores.2018.215
Lundbeck M, Hartog L, Grimm G, Hohmann V, Bramsløw L & Neher T (2018). "Influence of multi-microphone signal enhancement algorithms on the acoustics and detectability of angular and radial source movements", Trends Hear, 22, 1-13, DOI: 10.1177/2331216518779719
Nuesse T, Steenken R, Neher T & Holube I (2018). "Exploring the link between cognitive abilities and speech recognition in the elderly under different listening conditions", Front Psychol, 9:678, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00678
Neher T, Wagener KC & Fischer R-L (2018). "Hearing aid noise suppression and working memory function", Int J Audiol, 57, 335-344, DOI: 10.1080/14992027.2017.1423118
Habicht J, Finke M & Neher T (2018). "Auditory acclimatization to bilateral hearing aids: Effects on sentence-in-noise processing times and speech-evoked potentials", Ear Hear, 39, 161-171, DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000476
Neher T, Wagener KC & Latzel M (2017). "Speech reception with different bilateral directional processing schemes: Influence of binaural hearing, audiometric asymmetry, and acoustic scenario", Hear Res, 353, 36-48
Lundbeck M, Grimm G, Hohmann V, Laugesen S & Neher T (2017). "Sensitivity to angular and radial source movements as a function of acoustic complexity in normal and impaired hearing", Trends Hear, 21, 1-14, DOI: 10.1177/2331216517717152
de Taillez T, Grimm G, Kollmeier B & Neher T (2017). "Acoustic and perceptual effects of magnifying interaural difference cues in a simulated 'binaural' hearing aid", Int J Audiol, Early Online: 1-11, DOI: 10.1080/14992027.2017.1308564
Neher T (2017). "Characterizing the binaural contribution to speech-in-noise reception in elderly hearing-impaired listeners", J Acoust Soc Am, 141 (2), EL159-EL163
Habicht J, Kollmeier B & Neher T (2016). "Are experienced hearing aid users faster at grasping the meaning of a sentence than inexperienced users? An eye-tracking study", Trends Hear, 20, 1-13, DOI: 10.1177/2331216516660966
Neher T & Wagener KC (2016). "Investigating differences in preferred noise reduction strength among hearing aid users", Trends Hear, 20, 1-14, DOI: 10.1177/2331216516655794
Neher T, Wagener KC & Fischer R-L (2016). "Directional processing and noise reduction in hearing aids: Individual and situational influences on preferred setting", J Am Acad Audiol, 27 (8), 628-646
Souza P, Arehart K & Neher T (2015). "Working memory and hearing aid processing: Literature findings, future directions, and clinical applications", Front Psychol, 6:1894, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01894
Neher T (2014). "Relating hearing loss and executive functions to hearing aid users’ preference for, and speech recognition with, different combinations of binaural noise reduction and microphone directionality", Front Neurosci, 8:391, DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00391
Neher T, Grimm G & Hohmann V (2014). "Perceptual consequences of different signal changes due to binaural noise reduction: Do hearing loss and working memory capacity play a role?", Ear Hear, 35 (5), e213-e227
Nielsen JB, Dau T & Neher T (2014). "A Danish open-set speech corpus for competing-speech studies", J Acoust Soc Am, 135 (1), 407-420
Neher T, Grimm G, Hohmann V & Kollmeier B (2013). "Do hearing loss and cognitive function modulate benefit from different binaural noise-reduction settings?", Ear Hear, 35 (3), e52-e62
Jensen NS, Neher T, Laugesen S, Johannesson RB & Kragelund L (2013). "Laboratory and field study of the benefits of pinna cue-preserving hearing aids", Trends Amplif, 17 (3), 171-189
Neher T, Lunner T, Hopkins K & Moore BCJM (2012). "Binaural temporal fine structure sensitivity, cognitive function, and spatial speech recognition of hearing-impaired listeners (L)", J Acoust Soc Am, 131 (4), 2561-2564
Neher T, Laugesen S, Jensen NS & Kragelund L (2011). "Can basic auditory and cognitive measures predict hearing-impaired listeners' localization and spatial speech recognition performance?", J Acoust Soc Am, 130 (3), 1542-1558
Neher T, Behrens B, Carlile S, Jin C, Kragelund L, Petersen AS & van Schaik A (2009). "Benefit from spatial separation of multiple talkers in bilateral hearing-aid users: Effects of hearing loss, age and cognition", Int J Audiol, 48 (11), 758-774
Neher T, Behrens T & Beck DL (2008). "Spatial hearing and understanding speech in complex environments", Hear Rev, 15 (12), 22-25
Neher T, Brookes T & Mason R (2006). "Musically representative test signals for interaural cross-correlation coefficient measurement", Acta Acust Acust, 92 (5), 787-796
Neher T, Brookes T & Rumsey F (2006). "A hybrid technique for validating unidimensionality of perceived variation in a spatial auditory stimulus set", J Audio Eng Soc, 54 (4), 259-275
PATENTS
Lunner T & Neher T (2011). "Automatic real-time hearing aid fitting based on auditory evoked potentials", EP 11185225.7.
Neher T (2008). "Hearing device, hearing aid system, method of operating a hearing aid system and use of a hearing aid device", EP 08101559.6.
Neher T & Behrens T (2007). "Frequency transposition applications for improving spatial hearing abilities of subjects with high-frequency hearing losses", EP 07114028.9.
PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Neher T, Aderhold J, Marquardt D & Brand T (2016). "Individual factors in speech recognition with binaural multi-microphone noise reduction: Measurement and prediction", In Proceedings of ISAAR 2015: Individual Hearing Loss – Characterization, Modelling, Compensation, edited by S Santurette et al (Centertryk A/S, Denmark), pp. 237-244.
Neher T, Wagener KC, Meis M & Fischer R-L (2016). "Relating hearing aid users' preferred noise reduction setting to different measures of noise tolerance and distortion sensitivity", In Proceedings of ISAAR 2015: Individual Hearing Loss – Characterization, Modelling, Compensation, edited by S Santurette et al (Centertryk A/S, Denmark), pp. 269-276.
Habicht J, Finke M, Kollmeier B & Neher T (2016). "Effects of auditory acclimatization to bilateral amplification on audio-visual sentence-in-noise processing and speech-evoked potentials", In Proceedings of ISAAR 2015: Individual Hearing Loss – Characterization, Modelling, Compensation, edited by S Santurette et al (Centertryk A/S, Denmark), pp. 365-372.
Lundbeck M, Grimm G, Hohmann V, Laugesen S & Neher T (2016). "Sensitivity to angular and radial source movements in anechoic and echoic single- and multi-source scenarios for listeners with normal and impaired hearing", In Proceedings of ISAAR 2015: Individual Hearing Loss – Characterization, Modelling, Compensation, edited by S Santurette et al (Centertryk A/S, Denmark), pp. 469-476.
Neher T, Laugesen S, Jensen NS & Kragelund L (2012). "Auditory and cognitive contributions to hearing-impaired listeners’ spatial speech recognition performance", In Proceedings of ISAAR 2011: Speech Perception and Auditory Disorders, edited by T Dau et al (Centertryk A/S, Denmark), pp. 81-88.
Nielsen JB, Neher T & Dau T (2012). "Towards a Danish speech material for speech-on-speech masking investigations", In Proceedings of ISAAR 2011: Speech Perception and Auditory Disorders, edited by T Dau et al (Centertryk A/S, Denmark), pp. 175-181.
Andersen MR, Kristensen MS, Neher T & Lunner T (2012). "Side-effects of binaural tone vocoding on recognising target speech presented against spatially separated speech maskers", In Proceedings of ISAAR 2011: Speech Perception and Auditory Disorders, edited by T Dau et al (Centertryk A/S, Denmark), pp. 103-110.
Neher T, Breitsprecher C & Laugesen S (2010). "The influence of hearing-aid microphone location and room reverberation on better-ear effects", In Proceedings of ISAAR 2009: Binaural Processing and Spatial Hearing, edited by J Buchholz et al (Centertryk A/S, Denmark), pp. 505-511.
Behrens T, Maas P & Neher T (2010). "A method for quantifying the effects of non-linear hearing-aid signal processing on interaural level difference cues in conditions with multiple sound sources", In Proceedings of ISAAR 2009: Binaural Processing and Spatial Hearing, edited by J Buchholz et al (Centertryk A/S, Denmark), pp. 425-433.
Singh G, Pichora-Fuller MK, Behrens T & Neher T (2010). "The effects of hearing loss on auditory spatial attention", In Proceedings of ISAAR 2009: Binaural Processing and Spatial Hearing, edited by J Buchholz et al (Centertryk A/S, Denmark), pp. 155-163.
Neher T, Behrens T, Kragelund L & Petersen AS (2008). "Spatial unmasking in aided hearing-impaired listeners and the need for training", In Proceedings of ISAAR 2007: Auditory Signal Processing in Hearing-Impaired Listeners, edited by T Dau et al (Centertryk A/S, Denmark), pp. 515-522.
Behrens T, Neher T & Johannesson RB (2008). "Evaluation of a Danish speech corpus for assessment of spatial unmasking", In Proceedings of ISAAR 2007: Auditory Signal Processing in Hearing-Impaired Listeners, edited by T Dau et al (Centertryk A/S, Denmark), pp. 449-457.
OTHER CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Neher T, Wagener KC & Latzel M (2017). "Adapting bilateral directional processing to individual binaural hearing abilities", Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the German Audiological Society, Aalen, Germany.
Neher T, Wagener KC & Fischer R-L (2017). "Influence of noise suppression on cognitive processes", Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the German Audiological Society, Aalen, Germany.
Hartog L, Lundbeck M, Grimm G, Holube I & Neher T (2016). "Influence of binaural noise reduction on movement perception in normal and impaired hearing in complex listening situations", Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the German Audiological Society, Hannover, Germany.
Lundbeck M, Grimm G, Hohmann V, Laugesen S & Neher T (2016). "Auditory movement perception under acoustically complex conditions in normal and impaired hearing", Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the German Audiological Society, Hannover, Germany.
Schulte M, Habicht J, Neher T, Meis M & Wagener KC (2016). "Changes in listening effort following hearing aid provision", Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the German Audiological Society, Hannover, Germany.
Nüsse T, Steenken R, Neher T & Holube I (2016). "Investigating links between verbal and non-verbal cognitive measures", Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the German Audiological Society, Hannover, Germany.
Habicht J, Kollmeier B & Neher T (2016). "Can hearing aids speed up speech comprehension in noise? Insights from a longitudinal eye-tracking study", Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the German Audiological Society, Hannover, Germany.
Neher T, Wagener KC & Fischer R-L (2016). "Investigating differences in preferred noise reduction strength among hearing aid users", Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the German Audiological Society, Hannover, Germany.
Fischer R-L, Neher T & Wagener KC (2015). "Factors influencing preference for noise reduction in hearing aids", Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the German Acoustical Society, Nuremberg, Germany.
Aderhold J, Marquardt D, Warzybok A, Brand T & Neher T (2015). "Individual factors in speech recognition with binaural multichannel noise reduction: Measurement and prediction", Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the German Audiological Society, Bochum, Germany.
Habicht J, Kollmeier B & Neher T (2015). "Assessing the effects of hearing aid conditions, hearing aid use, and linguistic complexity using an audio-visual 'online' measure of speech-in-noise processing", Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the German Audiological Society, Bochum, Germany.
Büsing I, Grimm G & Neher T (2015). "Influence of spatially dynamic acoustic information on postural balance", Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the German Audiological Society, Bochum, Germany.
Neher T, Wagener KC & Fischer R-L (2015). "Individualized fitting of single- and multi-channel noise reduction algorithms in hearing aids", Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the German Audiological Society, Bochum, Germany.
Nüsse T, Schlüter A, Heindorf R, Neher T & Holube I (2015). "Relations between speech intelligibility in different background noises and cognitive functions for elderly listeners with normal and impaired hearing", Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the German Audiological Society, Bochum, Germany.
de Taillez T, Grimm G, Kollmeier B & Neher T (2014). "Investigating a scalable hearing aid with binaural enhancement", Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the German Audiological Society, Oldenburg, Germany.
Neher T, Grimm G & Hohmann V (2014). "Perceptual consequences of different signal changes due to binaural noise reduction: Do hearing loss and cognition play a role?", Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the German Audiological Society, Oldenburg, Germany.
Meis M, Schulte M, Vormann M, Wagener K, Meister H, Neher T, Rählmann S & Kiessling J (2013). "Cognitive functions and speech recognition in background noise", Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the German Audiological Society, Rostock, Germany.
Neher T, Grimm G, Hohmann V & Kollmeier B (2013). "Listening and understanding speech in a cafeteria: Effects of binaural noise reduction, hearing loss, and cognitive function", Proceedings of the AIA-DAGA 2013 Conference on Acoustics, Merano, Italy, pp. 216-219 (awarded with the European Acoustics Association Best Paper and Presentation Award).
Neher T, Brookes T & Rumsey F (2004). "Unidimensional simulation of the spatial attribute 'ensemble depth' for training purposes – Part 2: Creation and validation of reference stimuli", 116th Audio Engineering Society Convention, Berlin, Preprint 5998.
Neher T, Brookes T & Rumsey F (2003). "Unidimensional simulation of the spatial attribute 'ensemble depth' for training purposes – Part 1: Pilot study into early reflection pattern characteristics", Proceedings of the 24th Audio Engineering Society International Conference on Multichannel Audio, Banff, Canada, pp. 123-137.
Neher T, Rumsey F, Brookes T & Craven P (2003). "Unidimensional simulation of the spatial attribute 'ensemble width' for training purposes", 114th Audio Engineering Society Convention, Amsterdam, Preprint 5769.
Neher T, Rumsey F & Brookes T (2002). "Training of listeners for the evaluation of spatial sound reproduction", 112th Audio Engineering Society Convention, Munich, Preprint 5584.