ArticleNeurobiology of aging2015
Deficits in audiovisual speech perception in normal aging emerge at the level of whole-word recognition.
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- Audiovisual integration of the dynamic hand-held tool at different stimulus intensities in aging.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
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- Age-Related Differences in Early Cortical Representations of Target Speech Masked by Either Steady-State Noise or Competing Speech.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Audiovisual Speech Processing in Relationship to Phonological and Vocabulary Skills in First Graders.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2021Article
- Aging and working memory modulate the ability to benefit from visible speech and iconic gestures during speech-in-noise comprehension.Psychological research · 2021Article
- Effects of age and left hemisphere lesions on audiovisual integration of speech.Brain and language · 2020Article
- Aging Impairs Temporal Sensitivity, but not Perceptual Synchrony, Across Modalities.Multisensory research · 2019Article
- The Principle of Inverse Effectiveness in Audiovisual Speech Perception.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- Comparing Auditory-Only and Audiovisual Word Learning for Children With Hearing Loss.Journal of deaf studies and deaf education · 2018Article
- Response Errors in Females' and Males' Sentence Lipreading Necessitate Structurally Different Models for Predicting Lipreading Accuracy.Language learning · 2018Article
- Links between temporal acuity and multisensory integration across life span.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2018Article
- Increased Functional Brain Network Efficiency During Audiovisual Temporal Asynchrony Integration Task in Aging.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2018Article
- Audiovisual Temporal Perception in Aging: The Role of Multisensory Integration and Age-Related Sensory Loss.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Review
- Shifts in Audiovisual Processing in Healthy Aging.Current behavioral neuroscience reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Over the next 2 decades, a dramatic shift in the demographics of society will take place, with a rapid growth in the population of older adults. One of the most common complaints with healthy aging is a decreased ability to successfully perceive speech, particularly in noisy environments. In such noisy environments, the presence of visual speech cues (i.e., lip movements) provide striking benefits for speech perception and comprehension, but previous research suggests that older adults gain less from such audiovisual integration than their younger peers. To determine at what processing level these behavioral differences arise in healthy-aging populations, we administered a speech-in-noise task to younger and older adults. We compared the perceptual benefits of having speech information available in both the auditory and visual modalities and examined both phoneme and whole-word recognition across varying levels of signal-to-noise ratio. For whole-word recognition, older adults relative to younger adults showed greater multisensory gains at intermediate SNRs but reduced benefit at low SNRs. By contrast, at the phoneme level both younger and older adults showed approximately equivalent increases in multisensory gain as signal-to-noise ratio decreased. Collectively, the results provide important insights into both the similarities and differences in how older and younger adults integrate auditory and visual speech cues in noisy environments and help explain some of the conflicting findings in previous studies of multisensory speech perception in healthy aging. These novel findings suggest that audiovisual processing is intact at more elementary levels of speech perception in healthy-aging populations and that deficits begin to emerge only at the more complex word-recognition level of speech signals.
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