ReviewFrontiers in psychology2015
Cognitive aging and hearing acuity: modeling spoken language comprehension.
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- Contributions of Language-Specific and Domain-General Cognitive Abilities to the Comprehension of Focus Prosody in Jianghuai Mandarin: Effects of Age.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2025Article
- Immersive auditory-cognitive training improves speech-in-noise perception in older adults with varying hearing and working memory.NPJ science of learning · 2025Article
- The role of suprasegmental cues in perception of sentences with linguistic ambiguity under informational masking.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Executive Function Associations With Audibility-Adjusted Speech Perception in Noise.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2024Article
- Investigating Sensitivity to Auditory Cognition in Listening Effort Assessments: A Simultaneous EEG and Pupillometry Study.Brain and behavior · 2024Article
- Recognition of Speech With Dynamic Pitch Manipulation in Noise: Effects of Manipulation Methods.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2024Article
- Hearing loss and psychosocial outcomes: Influences of social emotional aspects and personality.PloS one · 2024Article
- Auditory, Lexical, and Multitasking Demands Interactively Impact Listening Effort.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023Article
- A structural equation mediation model captures the predictions amongst the parameters of the ease of language understanding model.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Cognitive Decline Associated with Aging.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023Article
- Performance on stochastic figure-ground perception varies with individual differences in speech-in-noise recognition and working memory capacity.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023Article
- Aging and the Perception of Affective and Linguistic Prosody.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2022Article
- Cochlear Implant Results in Older Adults with Post-Lingual Deafness: The Role of "Top-Down" Neurocognitive Mechanisms.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Face mask use in healthcare settings: effects on communication, cognition, listening effort and strategies for amelioration.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2022Article
- Auditory Processing Disorders in Elderly Persons vs. Linguistic and Emotional Prosody.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- White Matter Lesions as Possible Predictors of Audiological Performance in Adults after Cochlear Implantation.Brain sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
The comprehension of spoken language has been characterized by a number of "local" theories that have focused on specific aspects of the task: models of word recognition, models of selective attention, accounts of thematic role assignment at the sentence level, and so forth. The ease of language understanding (ELU) model (Rönnberg et al., 2013) stands as one of the few attempts to offer a fully encompassing framework for language understanding. In this paper we discuss interactions between perceptual, linguistic, and cognitive factors in spoken language understanding. Central to our presentation is an examination of aspects of the ELU model that apply especially to spoken language comprehension in adult aging, where speed of processing, working memory capacity, and hearing acuity are often compromised. We discuss, in relation to the ELU model, conceptions of working memory and its capacity limitations, the use of linguistic context to aid in speech recognition and the importance of inhibitory control, and language comprehension at the sentence level. Throughout this paper we offer a constructive look at the ELU model; where it is strong and where there are gaps to be filled.
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