ArticleThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America2015
Sentence intelligibility during segmental interruption and masking by speech-modulated noise: Effects of age and hearing loss.
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- Altered neural encoding of vowels in noise does not affect behavioral vowel discrimination in gerbils with age-related hearing loss.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Functional changes in the auditory cortex and associated regions caused by different acoustic stimuli in patients with presbycusis and tinnitus.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Cognitive and linguistic abilities and perceptual restoration of missing speech: Evidence from online assessment.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Glimpsing keywords across sentences in noise: A microstructural analysis of acoustic, lexical, and listener factors.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2021Article
- Effects of Age on Cortical Tracking of Word-Level Features of Continuous Competing Speech.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Comparing Speech Recognition for Listeners With Normal and Impaired Hearing: Simulations for Controlling Differences in Speech Levels and Spectral Shape.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2020Article
- Functional Age-Related Changes Within the Human Auditory System Studied by Audiometric Examination.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2019Article
- Simultaneous and forward masking of vowels and stop consonants: Effects of age, hearing loss, and spectral shaping.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2017Article
- Influences of noise-interruption and information-bearing acoustic changes on understanding simulated electric-acoustic speech.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2016Article
- Glimpsing Speech in the Presence of Nonsimultaneous Amplitude Modulations From a Competing Talker: Effect of Modulation Rate, Age, and Hearing Loss.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2016Article
- The intelligibility of interrupted and temporally altered speech: Effects of context, age, and hearing loss.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2016Article
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Abstract
This study investigated how single-talker modulated noise impacts consonant and vowel cues to sentence intelligibility. Younger normal-hearing, older normal-hearing, and older hearing-impaired listeners completed speech recognition tests. All listeners received spectrally shaped speech matched to their individual audiometric thresholds to ensure sufficient audibility with the exception of a second younger listener group who received spectral shaping that matched the mean audiogram of the hearing-impaired listeners. Results demonstrated minimal declines in intelligibility for older listeners with normal hearing and more evident declines for older hearing-impaired listeners, possibly related to impaired temporal processing. A correlational analysis suggests a common underlying ability to process information during vowels that is predictive of speech-in-modulated noise abilities. Whereas, the ability to use consonant cues appears specific to the particular characteristics of the noise and interruption. Performance declines for older listeners were mostly confined to consonant conditions. Spectral shaping accounted for the primary contributions of audibility. However, comparison with the young spectral controls who received identical spectral shaping suggests that this procedure may reduce wideband temporal modulation cues due to frequency-specific amplification that affected high-frequency consonants more than low-frequency vowels. These spectral changes may impact speech intelligibility in certain modulation masking conditions.
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