ArticleBrain research2010
Effects of degraded sensory input on memory for speech: behavioral data and a test of biologically constrained computational models.
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- Acoustic-Phonetic Mismatches Impair Serial Recall of Degraded Words.Auditory perception & cognition · 2020Article
- Recall of Speech is Impaired by Subsequent Masking Noise: A Replication of Experiment 2.Auditory perception & cognition · 2020Article
- Sensorial frailty: age-related hearing loss and the risk of cognitive impairment and dementia in later life.Therapeutic advances in chronic disease · 2019Review
- The Impact of Age, Background Noise, Semantic Ambiguity, and Hearing Loss on Recognition Memory for Spoken Sentences.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2018Article
- Impaired Cognitive Functioning in Cochlear Implant Recipients Over the Age of 55 Years: A Cross-Sectional Study Using the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status for Hearing-Impaired Individuals (RBANS-H).Frontiers in neuroscience · 2018Article
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- The Neural Consequences of Age-Related Hearing Loss.Trends in neurosciences · 2016Review
- Effects of Age, Acoustic Challenge, and Verbal Working Memory on Recall of Narrative Speech.Experimental aging research · 2016Article
- Effects of Age on Long Term Memory for Degraded Speech.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2016Article
- Acoustic Detail But Not Predictability of Task-Irrelevant Speech Disrupts Working Memory.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2016Article
- Multiple Solutions to the Same Problem: Utilization of Plausibility and Syntax in Sentence Comprehension by Older Adults with Impaired Hearing.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
- The Effects of Aging on the Components of Auditory - Verbal Short-Term Memory.Psychologica Belgica · 2015Article
- Cognitive aging and hearing acuity: modeling spoken language comprehension.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Review
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Abstract
Poor hearing acuity reduces memory for spoken words, even when the words are presented with enough clarity for correct recognition. An "effortful hypothesis" suggests that the perceptual effort needed for recognition draws from resources that would otherwise be available for encoding the word in memory. To assess this hypothesis, we conducted a behavioral task requiring immediate free recall of word-lists, some of which contained an acoustically masked word that was just above perceptual threshold. Results show that masking a word reduces the recall of that word and words prior to it, as well as weakening the linking associations between the masked and prior words. In contrast, recall probabilities of words following the masked word are not affected. To account for this effect we conducted computational simulations testing two classes of models: Associative Linking Models and Short-Term Memory Buffer Models. Only a model that integrated both contextual linking and buffer components matched all of the effects of masking observed in our behavioral data. In this Linking-Buffer Model, the masked word disrupts a short-term memory buffer, causing associative links of words in the buffer to be weakened, affecting memory for the masked word and the word prior to it, while allowing links of words following the masked word to be spared. We suggest that these data account for the so-called "effortful hypothesis", where distorted input has a detrimental impact on prior information stored in short-term memory.
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