Syndrome of the banquet

The syndrome of the banquet appears when a person has difficulties specific to hear in the middle of a crowd, while hearing without problem in silence.

This symptom, particularly delicate has to detect, would be due to an attack of the internal ear (lesion of the cochlea). This disorder of démasquage of the word perhaps of to a loss of frequential Selectivity or a deterioration of the perception of the fine structure of the temporal envelope of the word. It is not a tonal loss (dB) and cannot thus be compensated by a simple sound amplification.

It can be corrected by improving the signal-to-noise report/ratio appreciably. the best means of eliminating the ambient noise is to collect the sound with the source by an electronic device (Assistant of listening) equipped with a transmitter (microphonous which collects the words) and to transmit the signal via a laison without wire to a receiver equipped with ear-phones or coupling itself with a Audioprothèse.

It should not be confused with the Effet cocktail party

External bonds

Laboratory of Psychology of Perception
Article in Le Monde

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