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Differences in Auditory Perception Between Young and Older Adults When Controlling for Differences in Hearing Loss and Cognition.
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- Relationships Between Auditory Processing and Cognitive Abilities in Adults: A Systematic Review.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2024Pooled it
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- Individual differences in auditory scene analysis abilities in music and speech.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Feasibility and Repeatability of an Abbreviated Auditory Perceptual and Cognitive Test Battery.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2025Article
- Frequency Modulation Detection Thresholds are Unrelated to Individual Differences in Verbal Memory Capacity.Auditory perception & cognition · 2025Article
- Spatial selective auditory attention is preserved in older age but is degraded by peripheral hearing loss.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Analysis of the Spanish Auditory Test of Speech in Noise (PAHRE) in a Population with Hearing Loss.Audiology research · 2024Article
- Factors correlated with hearing aids adherence in older adults: a prospective controlled study.The Journal of international medical research · 2024Observational
- A review of auditory processing and cognitive change during normal ageing, and the implications for setting hearing aids for older adults.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Review
- Asymmetries and hemispheric interaction in the auditory system of elderly people.Frontiers in neuroimaging · 2023Review
- Effects of aging and hearing loss on perceptual and electrophysiological measures of pulse-rate discrimination.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2022Article
- The recognition of time-compressed speech as a function of age in listeners with cochlear implants or normal hearing.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- A Perspective on Auditory Wellness: What It Is, Why It Is Important, and How It Can Be Managed.Trends in hearingReview
- A Step Toward Precision Audiology: Individual Differences and Characteristic Profiles From Auditory Perceptual and Cognitive Abilities.Trends in hearingArticle
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Abstract
This study was designed to examine age effects on various auditory perceptual skills using a large group of listeners (155 adults, 121 aged 60-88 years and 34 aged 18-30 years), while controlling for the factors of hearing loss and working memory (WM). All subjects completed 3 measures of WM, 7 psychoacoustic tasks (24 conditions) and a hearing assessment. Psychophysical measures were selected to tap phenomena thought to be mediated by higher-level auditory function and included modulation detection, modulation detection interference, informational masking (IM), masking level difference (MLD), anisochrony detection, harmonic mistuning, and stream segregation. Principal-components analysis (PCA) was applied to each psychoacoustic test. For 6 of the 7 tasks, a single component represented performance across the multiple stimulus conditions well, whereas the modulation-detection interference (MDI) task required two components to do so. The effect of age was analyzed using a general linear model applied to each psychoacoustic component. Once hearing loss and WM were accounted for as covariates in the analyses, estimated marginal mean thresholds were lower for older adults on tasks based on temporal processing. When evaluated separately, hearing loss led to poorer performance on roughly 1/2 the tasks and declines in WM accounted for poorer performance on 6 of the 8 psychoacoustic components. These results make clear the need to interpret age-group differences in performance on psychoacoustic tasks in light of cognitive declines commonly associated with aging, and point to hearing loss and cognitive declines as negatively influencing auditory perceptual skills.
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