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dc.contributor.authorHaro, Stephanie
dc.contributor.authorSmalt, Christopher J.
dc.contributor.authorCiccarelli, Gregory A.
dc.contributor.authorQuatieri, Thomas F.
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-12T16:27:45Z
dc.date.available2021-01-12T16:27:45Z
dc.date.issued2020-12
dc.date.submitted2020-07
dc.identifier.issn2381-2710
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129383
dc.description.abstractMany individuals struggle to understand speech in listening scenarios that includereverberation and background noise. An individual’s ability to understand speech arisesfrom a combination of peripheral auditory function, central auditory function, and generalcognitive abilities. The interaction of these factors complicates the prescription oftreatment or therapy to improve hearing function. Damage tothe auditory peripherycan be studied in animals; however, this method alone is not enough to understandthe impact of hearing loss on speech perception. Computational auditory models bridgethe gap between animal studies and human speech perception.Perturbations to themodeled auditory systems can permit mechanism-based investigations into observedhuman behavior. In this study, we propose a computational model that accounts forthe complex interactions between different hearing damagemechanisms and simulateshuman speech-in-noise perception. The model performs a digit classification task asa human would, with only acoustic sound pressure as input. Thus, we can use themodel’s performance as a proxy for human performance. This two-stage model consistsof a biophysical cochlear-nerve spike generator followed by a deep neural network(DNN) classifier. We hypothesize that sudden damage to the periphery affects speechperception and that central nervous system adaptation overtime may compensatefor peripheral hearing damage. Our model achieved human-like performance acrosssignal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) under normal-hearing (NH) cochlear settings, achieving50% digit recognition accuracy at−20.7 dB SNR. Results were comparable to eightNH participants on the same task who achieved 50% behavioralperformance at−22dB SNR. We also simulated medial olivocochlear reflex (MOCR)and auditory nervefiber (ANF) loss, which worsened digit-recognition accuracy at lower SNRs comparedto higher SNRs. Our simulated performance following ANF loss is consistent withthe hypothesis that cochlear synaptopathy impacts communication in backgroundnoise more so than in quiet. Following the insult of various cochlear degradations, weimplemented extreme and conservative adaptation through the DNN. At the lowest SNRs(<0 dB), both adapted models were unable to fully recover NH performance, even withhundreds of thousands of training samples. This implies a limit on performance recoveryfollowing peripheral damage in our human-inspired DNN architecture.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipUnited States. Department of Defense. Research and Engineering (Air Force Contract No. FA8702-15-D-0001)en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Institutes of Health (U.S.) (T32 Trainee Grant No. 5T32DC000038-27)en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Science Foundation (U.S.). Graduate Research Fellowship Program (Grant DGE1745303)en_US
dc.publisherFrontiers Media SAen_US
dc.relation.isversionof10.3389/fenrg.2020.585461en_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licenseen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.sourceFrontiersen_US
dc.titleDeep Neural Network Model of Hearing-Impaired Speech-in-Noise Performanceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationHaro, Stephanie et al. “Deep Neural Network Model of Hearing-Impaired Speech-in-Noise Performance.” Frontiers in neuroscience, 14 (December 2020): 588448 © 2020 The Author(s)en_US
dc.contributor.departmentLincoln Laboratoryen_US
dc.relation.journalFrontiers in neuroscienceen_US
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dspace.date.submission2020-12-21T14:57:19Z
mit.journal.volume14en_US
mit.licensePUBLISHER_CC
mit.metadata.statusComplete


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