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SUBMITTER: Monaghan JJM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7728162 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Monaghan Jessica J M JJM Garcia-Lazaro Jose A JA McAlpine David D Schaette Roland R
Current biology : CB 20201008 23
Many individuals with seemingly normal hearing abilities struggle to understand speech in noisy backgrounds. To understand why this might be the case, we investigated the neural representation of speech in the auditory midbrain of gerbils with "hidden hearing loss" through noise exposure that increased hearing thresholds only temporarily. In noise-exposed animals, we observed significantly increased neural responses to speech stimuli, with a more pronounced increase at moderate than at high soun ...[more]