ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2015
Neural alpha dynamics in younger and older listeners reflect acoustic challenges and predictive benefits.
Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
60 citing papers in PubMed.
- Rapid Brain Adaptation to Hearing Amplification: A Randomized Crossover Trial of Personal Sound Amplification Products.Trends in hearingTrial
- Aperiodic neural activity during speech comprehension in aging: Insights into cognitive effort.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Electroencephalography, pupillometry, and behavioral evidence for locus coeruleus-noradrenaline system related tonic hyperactivity in older adults.Neurobiology of aging · 2026Article
- Differential effects of external noise and situational interest on neurophysiological responses during video based learning.NPJ science of learning · 2025Article
- Electroencephalography, pupillometry, and behavioral evidence for locus coeruleus-noradrenaline system related tonic hyperactivity in older adults.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- DX243 counteracts both acoustic trauma-induced reduction in cortical brain oscillations and cochlear synaptopathy.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
- Predicting the Irrelevant: Neural Effects of Distractor Predictability Depend on Load.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
- Neurophysiology of Effortful Listening: Decoupling Motivational Modulation from Task Demands.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Evaluating aperiodic and periodic neural activity as markers of listening effort in speech perception.Auditory perception & cognition · 2024Article
- Eye Movements Decrease during Effortful Speech Listening.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Article
- Neural α Oscillations and Pupil Size Differentially Index Cognitive Demand under Competing Audiovisual Task Conditions.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Cortical speech tracking is related to individual prediction tendencies.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Performance Monitoring and Cognitive Inhibition during a Speech-in-Noise Task in Older Listeners.Seminars in hearing · 2023Review
- Expectations boost the reconstruction of auditory features from electrophysiological responses to noisy speech.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Cortical-brainstem interplay during speech perception in older adults with and without hearing loss.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Music in noise recognition: An EEG study of listening effort in cochlear implant users and normal hearing controls.PloS one · 2023Article
- Neural dynamics differentially encode phrases and sentences during spoken language comprehension.PLoS biology · 2022Article
- Degradation levels of continuous speech affect neural speech tracking and alpha power differently.The European journal of neuroscience · 2022Article
- Neural responses to naturalistic audiovisual speech are related to listening demand in cochlear implant users.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Speech comprehension in multitalker situations is a notorious real-life challenge, particularly for older listeners. Younger listeners exploit stimulus-inherent acoustic detail, but are they also actively predicting upcoming information? And further, how do older listeners deal with acoustic and predictive information? To understand the neural dynamics of listening difficulties and according listening strategies, we contrasted neural responses in the alpha-band (∼10 Hz) in younger (20-30 years, n = 18) and healthy older (60-70 years, n = 20) participants under changing task demands in a two-talker paradigm. Electroencephalograms were recorded while humans listened to two spoken digits against a distracting talker and decided whether the second digit was smaller or larger. Acoustic detail (temporal fine structure) and predictiveness (the degree to which the first digit predicted the second) varied orthogonally. Alpha power at widespread scalp sites decreased with increasing acoustic detail (during target digit presentation) but also with increasing predictiveness (in-between target digits). For older compared with younger listeners, acoustic detail had a stronger impact on task performance and alpha power modulation. This suggests that alpha dynamics plays an important role in the changes in listening behavior that occur with age. Last, alpha power variations resulting from stimulus manipulations (of acoustic detail and predictiveness) as well as task-independent overall alpha power were related to subjective listening effort. The present data show that alpha dynamics is a promising neural marker of individual difficulties as well as age-related changes in sensation, perception, and comprehension in complex communication situations.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.