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ArticleSeminars in hearing2015

Overview of Central Auditory Processing Deficits in Older Adults.

Samuel R Atcherson, Naveen K Nagaraj, Sarah E W Kennett, Meredith Levisee

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Article in Seminars in hearing, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  2. Neural and Behavioral Changes in Older Adults from Auditory-Cognitive Training.Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference · 2025
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  4. Dynamic Spatial Auditory Processing in the Elderly.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2024
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  11. Auditory Processing Disorders in Elderly Persons vs. Linguistic and Emotional Prosody.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  17. The Characteristics of Adults with Severe Hearing Loss.Journal of the American Academy of Audiology · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Samuel R AtchersonUniversity of Arkansas at Little Rock/University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas; Arkansas Consortium for the Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Naveen K NagarajUniversity of Arkansas at Little Rock/University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas; Arkansas Consortium for the Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Sarah E W KennettUniversity of Arkansas at Little Rock/University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas; Arkansas Consortium for the Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders, Little Rock, Arkansas; Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Meredith LeviseeUniversity of Arkansas at Little Rock/University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although there are many reported age-related declines in the human body, the notion that a central auditory processing deficit exists in older adults has not always been clear. Hearing loss and both structural and functional central nervous system changes with advancing age are contributors to how we listen, hear, and process auditory information. Even older adults with normal or near normal hearing sensitivity may exhibit age-related central auditory processing deficits as measured behaviorally and/or electrophysiologically. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of assessment and rehabilitative approaches for central auditory processing deficits in older adults. It is hoped that the outcome of the information presented here will help clinicians with older adult patients who do not exhibit the typical auditory processing behaviors exhibited by others at the same age and with comparable hearing sensitivity all in the absence of other health-related conditions.

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age-relatedCentral auditory processing deficitcentral presbycusiscognitiondichoticspeech-in-noisetemporal processing

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PMID27516715
PMCPMC4906303

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