ArticleInternational journal of audiology2018
How repetition influences speech understanding by younger, middle-aged and older adults.
Article in International journal of audiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- The Temporal Resolution Needed for Speech Intelligibility Assessed with Mosaic Speech: Effects of Block Duration, Age, and Word Familiarity.Audiology research · 2026Article
- An Exploratory Study of Walking, Listening, and Remembering in Younger and Middle-Aged Adults.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023Article
- Hearing and speech processing in midlife.Hearing research · 2021Review
- Early aging and postural control while listening and responding.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2020Article
- Top-down or bottom up: decreased stimulus salience increases responses to predictable stimuli of auditory thalamic neurons.The Journal of physiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine benefit from immediate repetition of a masked speech message in younger, middle-aged and older adults.
designParticipants listened to sentences in conditions where only the target message was repeated, and when both the target message and its accompanying masker (noise or speech) were repeated. In a follow-up experiment, the effect of repetition was evaluated using a square-wave modulated noise masker to compare benefit when listeners were exposed to the same glimpses of the target message during first and second presentation versus when the glimpses differed. STUDY SAMPLE: Younger, middle-aged and older adults (n = 16/group) for the main experiment; 15 younger adults for the follow-up experiment.
resultsRepetition benefit was larger when the target but not the masker was repeated for all groups. This was especially true for older adults, suggesting that these individuals may be more negatively affected when a background message is repeated. Data obtained using noise maskers suggest that it is slightly more beneficial when listeners hear different (versus identical) portions of speech between initial presentation and repetition.
conclusionsAlthough subtle age-related differences were found in some conditions, results confirm that repetition is an effective repair strategy for listeners spanning the adult age range.
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