ArticleTrends in hearing
Associations Between Hearing and Cognitive Abilities From Childhood to Middle Age: The National Child Development Study 1958.
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- Association of hearing loss with cognitive function and mental health in Africa: A systematic review.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
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- The Ongoing Challenges of Hearing Loss: Stigma, Socio-Cultural Differences, and Accessibility Barriers.Audiology research · 2025Review
- Comparative Analysis of Intellectual Quotient in Developmental Population with Severe Hearing Loss: Hearing Aids vs. Cochlear Implant Users.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Frequency and Time Domain Analysis of EEG Based Auditory Evoked Potentials to Detect Binaural Hearing in Noise.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- 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
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Abstract
Previous cross-sectional findings indicate that hearing and cognitive abilities are positively correlated in childhood, adulthood, and older age. We used an unusually valuable longitudinal dataset from a single-year birth cohort study, the National Child Development Study 1958, to test how hearing and cognitive abilities relate to one another across the life course from childhood to middle age. Cognitive ability was assessed with a single test of general cognitive ability at age 11 years and again with multiple tests at age 50. Hearing ability was assessed, using a pure tone audiogram, in childhood at ages 11 and 16 and again at age 44. Associations between childhood and middle-age hearing and cognitive abilities were investigated using structural equation modelling. We found that higher cognitive ability was associated with better hearing (indicated by a lower score on the hearing ability variables); this association was apparent in childhood (
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