Trial reportExperimental brain research2014
Free-field study on auditory localization and discrimination performance in older adults.
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22 citing papers in PubMed.
- Aging in the Primary Auditory Cortex.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2026Review
- Pilot Data for a New Headphone-Based Assessment of Absolute Localization in the Assessment of Auditory Processing Disorder (APD).Audiology research · 2025Article
- Auditory Spatial Discrimination and Sound Localization in Single-Sided Deaf Participants Provided with a Cochlear Implant.Audiology & neuro-otology · 2024Article
- Comparison of a Free-Field and a Closed-Field Sound Source Identification Paradigms in Assessing Spatial Acuity in Adults With Normal Hearing Sensitivity.Journal of audiology & otology · 2023Article
- Audiovisual Training in Virtual Reality Improves Auditory Spatial Adaptation in Unilateral Hearing Loss Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Design of Audio-Augmented-Reality-Based O&M Orientation Training for Visually Impaired Children.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Instant improvement in monaural spatial hearing abilities through cognitive feedback.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Visual and Auditory Spatial Localization in Younger and Older Adults.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Sound source localization patterns and bilateral cochlear implants: Age at onset of deafness effects.PloS one · 2022Article
- Age and Auditory Spatial Perception in Humans: Review of Behavioral Findings and Suggestions for Future Research.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Sound Localization in Single-Sided Deaf Participants Provided With a Cochlear Implant.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Intra- and interhemispheric white matter tract associations with auditory spatial processing: Distinct normative and aging effects.NeuroImage · 2020Article
- Effects of rate and age in processing interaural time and level differences in normal-hearing and bilateral cochlear-implant listeners.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2019Article
- Aging Effect on Audiovisual Integrative Processing in Spatial Discrimination Task.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2017Article
- Reduced temporal processing in older, normal-hearing listeners evident from electrophysiological responses to shifts in interaural time difference.Journal of neurophysiology · 2016Article
- The Perception of Auditory Motion.Trends in hearing · 2016Review
- Relative sound localisation abilities in human listeners.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2015Article
- Localization training results in individuals with unilateral severe to profound hearing loss.Hearing research · 2015Article
- Pre-attentive cortical processing of behaviorally perceptible spatial changes in older adults-a mismatch negativity study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2014Article
- Minimum Audible Angle and the Acoustic Change Complex Elicited by Azimuthal Shifts in Low-Frequency Sounds: Effects of Age.Trends in hearingArticle
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Abstract
Localization accuracy and acuity for low- (0.375-0.75 kHz; LN) and high-frequency (2.25-4.5 kHz; HN) noise bands were examined in young (20-29 years) and older adults (65-83 years) in the acoustic free-field. A pointing task was applied to quantify accuracy, while acuity was inferred from minimum audible angle (MAA) thresholds measured with an adaptive 3-alternative forced-choice procedure. Accuracy decreased with laterality and age. From young to older adults, the accuracy declined by up to 23 % for the low-frequency noise band across all lateralities. The mean age effect was even more pronounced on MAA thresholds. Thus, age was a strong predictor for MAA thresholds for both LN and HN bands. There was no significant correlation between hearing status and localization performance. These results suggest that central auditory processing of space declines with age and is mainly driven by age-related changes in the processing of binaural cues (interaural time difference and interaural intensity difference) and not directly induced by peripheral hearing loss. We conclude that the representation of the location of sound sources becomes blurred with age as a consequence of declined temporal processing, the effect of which becomes particularly evident for MAA thresholds, where two closely adjoining sound sources have to be separated. While localization accuracy and MAA were not correlated in older adults, only a weak correlation was found in young adults. These results point to an employment of different processing strategies for localization accuracy and acuity.
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