ArticleLanguage, cognition and neuroscience2021
Cognitive and neural predictors of speech comprehension in noisy backgrounds in older adults.
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- Executive Function Associations With Audibility-Adjusted Speech Perception in Noise.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2024Article
- Functional topography of the neocortex predicts covariation in complex cognitive and basic motor abilities.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Functional Topography of the Neocortex Predicts Covariation in Complex Cognitive and Basic Motor Abilities.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Are musical activities associated with enhanced speech perception in noise in adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Current research in neurobiology · 2023Review
- Distinct Contributions of Working Memory and Attentional Control to Sentence Comprehension in Noise in Persons With Stroke.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2021Article
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Abstract
Older adults often experience difficulties comprehending speech in noisy backgrounds, which hearing loss does not fully explain. It remains unknown how cognitive abilities, brain networks, and age-related hearing loss may uniquely contribute to speech in noise comprehension at the sentence level. In 31 older adults, using cognitive measures and resting-state fMRI, we investigated the cognitive and neural predictors of speech comprehension with energetic (broadband noise) and informational masking (multi-speakers) effects. Better hearing thresholds and greater working memory abilities were associated with better speech comprehension with energetic masking. Conversely, faster processing speed and stronger functional connectivity between frontoparietal and language networks were associated with better speech comprehension with informational masking. Our findings highlight the importance of the frontoparietal network in older adults' ability to comprehend speech in multi-speaker backgrounds, and that hearing loss and working memory in older adults contributes to speech comprehension abilities related to energetic, but not informational masking.
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