ArticleHearing research2021
The search for correlates of age-related cochlear synaptopathy: Measures of temporal envelope processing and spatial release from speech-on-speech masking.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Relationships Between Auditory Processing and Cognitive Abilities in Adults: A Systematic Review.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2024Pooled it
- Normative Data and Repeatability of a 4-kHz Pure-Tone Psychoacoustic Tuning Curve Using a Single Clinical Audiometer.Journal of audiology & otology · 2026Article
- The Effect of Modulation Enhancement Scheme on Speech Recognition in Spatial Noise Among Young Adults with Normal Hearing.Audiology research · 2026Article
- Persistent impairment of spatial hearing and neural binaural interaction after "temporary" noise-induced hearing loss.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- Modeling the impact of cochlear nerve degeneration on speech recognition performance.PloS one · 2025Article
- Noise Exposure in Palestinian Workers Without a Diagnosis of Hearing Impairment: Relations to Speech-Perception-in-Noise Difficulties, Tinnitus, and Hyperacusis.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023Article
- The Relative and Combined Effects of Noise Exposure and Aging on Auditory Peripheral Neural Deafferentation: A Narrative Review.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Review
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- The Effect of Lifetime Noise Exposure and Aging on Speech-Perception-in-Noise Ability and Self-Reported Hearing Symptoms: An Online Study.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- The effect of noise on the amplitude and morphology of cortical auditory evoked potentials.Brazilian journal of otorhinolaryngologyArticle
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Abstract
Older adults often experience difficulties understanding speech in adverse listening conditions. It has been suggested that for listeners with normal and near-normal audiograms, these difficulties may, at least in part, arise from age-related cochlear synaptopathy. The aim of this study was to assess if performance on auditory tasks relying on temporal envelope processing reveal age-related deficits consistent with those expected from cochlear synaptopathy. Listeners aged 20 to 66 years were tested using a series of psychophysical, electrophysiological, and speech-perception measures using stimulus configurations that promote coding by medium- and low-spontaneous-rate auditory-nerve fibers. Cognitive measures of executive function were obtained to control for age-related cognitive decline. Results from the different tests were not significantly correlated with each other despite a presumed reliance on common mechanisms involved in temporal envelope processing. Only gap-detection thresholds for a tone in noise and spatial release from speech-on-speech masking were significantly correlated with age. Increasing age was related to impaired cognitive executive function. Multivariate regression analyses showed that individual differences in hearing sensitivity, envelope-based measures, and scores from nonauditory cognitive tests did not significantly contribute to the variability in spatial release from speech-on-speech masking for small target/masker spatial separation, while age was a significant contributor.
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