Raul Sanchez-Lopez

Raul Sanchez-Lopez
Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education | IGDORE

PhD Hearing Sciences

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Introduction
I have always been fascinated by the auditory system and how the different elements in it work together. It is impressive, that small variations of air (sound) pressure can produce a hearing sensation and, even more remarkable, to allow verbal communication. My background as a clinical audiologist, technical engineering skills, broad knowledge about hearing impairments, and my enthusiasm are the core characteristics of my unique scientific profile.
Additional affiliations
May 2023 - June 2024
Oticon Medical
Position
  • Senior Researcher
April 2020 - December 2022
Interacoustics Research Unit
Position
  • PostDoc Position
February 2022 - December 2022
University of Nottingham
Position
  • Research Fellow
Education
July 2016 - August 2020
Technical University of Denmark
Field of study
  • Hearing Sciences

Publications

Publications (44)
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The sources and consequences of a sensorineural hearing loss are diverse. While several approaches have aimed at disentangling the physiological and perceptual consequences of different etiologies, hearing deficit characterization and rehabilitation have been dominated by the results from pure-tone audiometry. Here, we present a novel approach base...
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Objective Hearing rehabilitation attempts to compensate for auditory dysfunction, reduce hearing difficulties and minimise participation restrictions that can lead to social isolation. However, there is no systematic approach to assess the quality of the intervention at an individual level that might help to evaluate the need of further hearing reh...
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The Better hEAring Rehabilitation (BEAR) project aims to provide a new clinical profiling tool—a test battery—for hearing loss characterization. Although the loss of sensitivity can be efficiently measured using pure-tone audiometry, the assessment of supra-threshold hearing deficits remains a challenge. In contrast to the classical “attenuation-di...
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Hearing loss is the third leading cause of years lived with disability. It is estimated that 430 million people worldwide are affected, and the number of cases is expected to increase in the future. There is therefore increased pressure on hearing health systems around the world to improve efficiency and reduce costs to ensure increased access to q...
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Objective: To investigate whether hearing-aid fitting based on user-operated audiometry is non-inferior to hearing-aid fitting based on traditional audiometry. Design: This non-inferiority randomised clinical trial, took place at Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark. In a first visit, participants were tested with traditional audiometry a...
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The scholarly publishing system is adapting to many changes including open access and open data mandates, and new technologies, including artificial intelligence. Members of the research and publishing communities are working to establish a more equitable, fair, and rigorous system that serves researchers’ evolving needs. Early career researchers (...
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Background: Although hearing aids (HAs) can compensate for reduced audibility, functional outcomes and benefits vary widely across individuals. As part of the Danish ‘Better hEAring Rehabilitation’ (BEAR) project, four distinct auditory profiles differing in terms of audiometric thresholds and supra-threshold hearing abilities were recently identif...
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Hearing aids provide nonlinear amplification to improve speech audibility and loudness perception. While more audibility typically increases speech intelligibility at low levels, the same is not true for above-conversational levels, where decreases in intelligibility (“rollover”) can occur. In a previous study, we found rollover in speech intelligi...
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Over the last decade, multiple studies have shown that hearing-impaired listeners’ speech-in-noise reception ability, measured with audibility compensation, is closely associated with performance in spectro-temporal modulation (STM) detection tests. STM tests thus have the potential to provide highly relevant beyond-the-audiogram information in the...
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Introduction: There is a worldwide need to enhance the capacity of audiometry testing. The objective of this study is to compare the User-operated Audiometry (UAud) system with traditional audiometry in a clinical setting, by investigating if hearing aid effectiveness based on UAud is non-inferior to hearing aid effectiveness based on traditional...
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1) Background: To improve hearing-aid rehabilitation, the Danish 'Better hEAring Rehabilitation' (BEAR) project recently developed methods for individual hearing loss characterization and hearing-aid fitting. Four auditory profiles differing in terms of audiometric hearing loss and supra-threshold hearing abilities were identified. To enable audito...
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Large-scale datasets, such as the UK Biobank and the Human Connectome Project, have proved extremely powerful for facilitating research into mechanisms of human health and disease. A limitation of most existing resources, however, is that hearing health phenotypes are captured at a rudimentary level, where even basic pure-tone audiometry data are r...
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The user-operated audiometry (UAud) project aims at introducing an automated system for user-operated audiometric testing into everyday clinical practice. In that context, the Audible Contrast Threshold (ACT™) test is proposed as a test of supra-threshold hearing ability and as a language-independent alternative to speech-in-noise tests. Here, five...
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Currently, the clinical characterization of hearing deficits for hearing aid fitting is based primarily on the pure-tone audiogram. In our work, we explored how data-driven approaches can effectively identify patient subpopulations with distinct differences in terms of their hearing abilities. This process is what we called “auditory profiling”; it...
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Background—The clinical characterization of hearing deficits for hearing-aid fitting purposes is typically based on the pure-tone audiogram only. In a previous study, a group of hearing-impaired listeners completed a comprehensive test battery that was designed to tap into different dimensions of hearing abilities. A data-driven analysis of the dat...
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Effective hearing aid (HA) rehabilitation requires personalization of the HA fitting parameters, but in current clinical practice only the gain prescription is typically individualized. To optimize the fitting process, advanced HA settings such as noise reduction and microphone directionality can also be tailored to individual hearing deficits. In...
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Currently, clinical characterization of hearing deficits for hearing-aid fitting is based on the pure-tone audiogram. Implicitly, this assumes that the audiogram can predict performance in complex, supra-threshold tasks. Sanchez-Lopez et al. (2018) hypothesized that the hearing deficits of a given listener, both at threshold and supra-threshold lev...
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Objective: Hearing rehabilitation attempts to compensate for auditory dysfunction, reduce hearing difficulties and minimize participation restrictions that can lead to social isolation. However, there is no systematic approach to assess the quality of the intervention at an individual level that might help to evaluate the need of further hearing re...
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Plomp (1986) described the consequences of hearing impairment in speech communication as the sum of two components: attenuation and distortion. Recent studies have shown that the sensitivity to spectro-temporal modulations (STM) might be linked to speech intelligibility in noise, suggesting that supra-threshold, or “internal”, distortions would aff...
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Objective: The clinical characterization of hearing deficits for hearing-aid fitting purposes is typically based on the pure-tone audiogram only. In a previous study, a group of hearing-impaired listeners were tested using a comprehensive test battery designed to tap into different aspects of hearing. A data-driven analysis of the data yielded four...
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Data-driven profiling allows uncovering complex hidden structures in a dataset and has been used as a diagnostic tool in various fields of work. In audiology, the clinical characterization of hearing deficits for hearing-aid fitting is typically based on the pure-tone audiogram only. Implicitly, this relies on the assumption that the audiogram can...
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The current study forms part of the Better hEAring Rehabilitation (BEAR) project, which aims at developing new clinical tools for characterizing individual hearing loss and for assessing hearing-aid (HA) benefit. Its purpose was to investigate potential interactions between four auditory profiles and three measures of HA outcome obtained for six HA...
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The Better hEAring Rehabilitation (BEAR) project aims to provide a new clinical profiling tool, a test battery, for hearing loss characterization. Whereas the loss of sensitivity can be efficiently measured using pure-tone audiometry, the assessment of supra-threshold hearing deficits remains a challenge. In contrast to the classical attenuation-di...
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Currently, clinical characterization of hearing deficits for hearing-aid fitting is based on the pure-tone audiogram only. Implicitly, this assumes that the audiogram can predict performance on complex, supra-threshold tasks. Sanchez-Lopez et al. (Trends in Hearing, Vol. 22, 2018) hypothesized that the hearing deficits of a given listener, both at...
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This repository contains raw and processed data used and described in: R. Sanchez-Lopez, S.G. Nielsen, M. El-Haj-Ali, F. Bianchi, M, Fereckzowski, O. Cañete, M. Wu, T. Neher, T. Dau and S. Santurette (under review). ``Auditory tests for characterizing hearing deficits: The BEAR test battery,'' Int. J. of Audiology. [Preprint available in medRxiv:...
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The current study forms part of the Better hEAring Rehabilitation (BEAR) project, which aims to develop and evaluate new clinical tools for individual hearing loss characterization and hearing aid (HA) benefit assessment. The purpose of the current study was to assess the interaction between four different auditory profiles and two measures of hear...
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One aim of the Better hEAring Rehabilitation (BEAR) project is to define a new clinical profiling tool, a test battery, for individualized hearing loss characterization. Recently, Sanchez-Lopez et al. (2019) proposed a test battery that includes six types of measures: audibility, middle-ear analysis, speech perception, binaural-processing abilities...
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The current study forms part of the Better hEAring Rehabilitation (BEAR) project, which aims at developing new clinical tools for characterizing individual hearing loss and for assessing hearing-aid (HA) benefit. Its purpose was to investigate potential interactions between four auditory profiles and three measures of HA outcome obtained for six HA...
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Pure-tone audiometry still represents the main measure to characterize individual hearing loss and the basis for hearing-aid fitting. However, the perceptual consequences of hearing loss are typically associated not only with a loss of sensitivity but also with a loss of clarity that is not captured by the audiogram. A detailed characterization of...
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Background The Better hEAring Rehabilitation (BEAR) project pursues the development and assessment of new clinically feasible strategies for individual hearing-loss diagnosis and hearing-aid fitting. The aim is to improve the current clinical practice, where the fitting process relies on the pure-tone audiogram and trial-and-error methods, which us...
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Background While the audiogram still stands as the main tool for selecting hearing-aid compensation strategies in audiological clinics, there is ample evidence that loss of hearing sensitivity cannot fully account for common difficulties encountered by people with sensorineural hearing loss, such as understanding speech in noisy environments. Forty...
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The Better hEAring Rehabilitation (BEAR) project pursues the development and evaluation of new clinically feasible strategies for individual hearing loss diagnosis and hearing aid fitting. Two essential elements of this research are the design of a new diagnostic test battery for identifying different auditory profiles and linking those profiles to...
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Hearing-aid users have reported an increased satisfaction since digital technology and advanced signal processing became available in hearing aids. However, many users still experience difficulties in noisy environments and in complex listening scenarios. Although numerous parameters can be adjusted to provide an individualized hearing solution, he...
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Nowadays, the pure-tone audiogram is the main tool used to characterize hearing loss and to fit hearing aids. However, the perceptual consequences of hearing loss are typically not only associated with a loss of sensitivity, but also with a clarity loss that is not captured by the audiogram. A detailed characterization of hearing loss has to be sim...
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Nowadays, the pure-tone audiogram is the main tool used to characterize the degree of hearing loss and for hearing-aid fitting. However, the perceptual consequences of hearing loss are typically associated not only to a loss of sensitivity, but also to a loss of clarity (distortions) that is not captured by the audiogram. Here, we hypothesize that...
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When a signal varies in its properties along the time and frequency, this is considered a modulation. Speech signals exhibit temporal and spectral modulations. The sensitivity to these modulations has been studied in normal-hearing (NH) listeners, yielding temporal, spectral and spectro-temporal modulation transfer functions (Dau et al. 1997, Eddin...
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The ability of human listeners to detect and discriminate spectro-temporal ripples in sound has been shown to be correlated with speech intelligibility performance in several conditions. Thus, if a model would be able to account for the spectro-temporal processing limits in the auditory system, such a framework could be used to analyze the auditory...
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Assessment of the compressive nonlinearity in the hearing system provides useful information about the inner ear. Auditory-steady state responses (ASSR) have recently been used to estimate the state of the compressive nonlinearity in the peripheral auditory system. Since it is commonly assumed that outer hair cells in the inner ear play an importan...
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Auditory steady-state responses (ASSR) allow objective assessment of auditory function using electroencephalography (EGG). If peripheral compression is, at least partially, due to cochlear compression, the amplitude of ASSR as a function of level can be assumed to reflect the compressive growth of the cochlear nonlinearity. A recent study (Encina L...

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Hi;
I have recently discovered these two institutions ( IGDORE and Ronin Institute) and I would like to talk to someone who is affiliated to them and get some insights about how they work. Also, I would be interested in knowing about your experience as "independent researcher".
Thanks
Best wishes
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This message is for Spanish and Hispano-American Scientists:
Hola a tod@s;
Como todo Español o Hispano-americano tengo dos apellidos, el de mi padre y el de mi madre. Sin embargo, esto no es usual en otros países y a la hora de publicar estoy encontrando algunos "problemillas".
Al principio decidí descartar mi segundo apellido y ser Raul Sanchez o Raul H Sanchez. Sin embargo, en mi universidad, aparezco con mi nombre oficial: http://orbit.dtu.dk/en/persons/raul-sanchez-lopez(2fec602c-d244-46d1-85bc-5f29334a659c).html
El problema, es que despues de publicar un "journal paper", a la hora de citarlo, están habiendo varias confusiones y me citan como Lopez RS ya que incluso el journal sugiere este formato.
Ahora mismo, estoy utilizando Sanchez-Lopez con el guion como la opcion más acertada y estoy considerando cambiar mi apellido de forma permanente.
Mi pregunta es: Cómo lo habéis hecho vosotros? Alguien ha cambiado formalmente sus apellidos debido a esto?
Un cordial Saludo
Raul H.

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