For adults with hearing loss, linear amplification (amplification across all sound levels, available with some hearing aids) might restore their ability to recognize emotion in voices
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For adults with hearing loss, linear amplification (amplification across all sound levels, available with some hearing aids) might restore their ability to recognize emotion in voices
Article URL: http://plos.io/4ldE7dQ
Article title: Effects of mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing loss and signal amplification on vocal emotion recognition in middle-aged–older individuals
Author countries: Sweden
Funding: Örjan Dahlström was partly funded through a grant from The Swedish Association of Hard of Hearing People. Ref 2016-531. https://hrf.se/ The Swedish Association of Hard of Hearing People did not play any role in the design, data collection, analysis, preparation or decision to publish the manuscript.
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Article URL: http://plos.io/4ldE7dQ
Article title: Effects of mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing loss and signal amplification on vocal emotion recognition in middle-aged–older individuals
Author countries: Sweden
Funding: Örjan Dahlström was partly funded through a grant from The Swedish Association of Hard of Hearing People. Ref 2016-531. https://hrf.se/ The Swedish Association of Hard of Hearing People did not play any role in the design, data collection, analysis, preparation or decision to publish the manuscript.
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