Module AT4500-KP05

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each summer semester

Credit points

5

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Master Auditory Technology 2022, compulsory, Auditory Technology
• Master Auditory Technology 2017, compulsory, Auditory Technology

Classes and lectures:

• Audiology (exercise, 1 SWS)
• Audiology (lecture, 3 SWS)

Workload:

• 60 hours private studies and exercises
• 30 hours exam preparation
• 60 hours in-classroom work

Contents of teaching:

• Molecular and cellular processes
• Objective diagnostics
• Speech development
• Auditory processing disorders
• Tinnitus, hyperacusis
• Rehabilitation of adults and children with hearing aids and implantable hearing systems
• Aural rehabilitation training
• Binaural hearing: basics and perception of motion
• Psychoacoustics and speech perception with impaired hearing
• Psychoacousic models of auditory processing
• Comodualtion masking
• Models of speech perception
• Auditory scene analysis
• Music perception
• Cochlear implants: design, algorithms, temporal and spectral resolution, speech understanding
• Selected topics of hearing research and audiology

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• The students understand important mechanisms of the auditory system which enable speech understanding, music perception, localization, and their application to models of auditory processing.
• The students are able to apply methods to conduct and analyze listening experiments in research and audiological practice.

Grading through:

• portfolio exam

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. Tim Jürgens

Teacher:

• Lübeck University of Applied Sciences
• Prof. Dr. Tim Jürgens

Literature:

• E. Zwicker, H. Fastl: : Psychoacoustics: facts and models Springer, 2007
• J. Katz : Handbook of clinical Audiology Lippincott Raven, 2014
• S. A. Gelfand : Essentials of Audiology Thieme Medical Publishers, 2009
• J. Blauert : Spatial Hearing: Psychophysics of Human Sound Localization Mit University Press Group Ltd, 1996
• B. C. J. Moore : An introduction to the psychology of hearing Cambridge University Press, 2014
• B. C. J. Moore : Cochlear hearing loss: physiological, psychological and technical issues John Wiley & Sons, 2007
• J. Pickles : An introduction to the physiology of hearing Brill, 2013
• E. Lehnhardt, R. Laszig : Praxis der Audiometrie Thieme, 2009
• J. Eggermont, F. Zeng, A. Popper, R. R. Fay : Tinnitus Springer, 2012
• D. J. Benson : Music: a mathematical offering Cambridge University Press, 2007

Language:

• offered only in German

Notes:

Last Updated:

26.05.2021