This chapter reviews various factors that affect the speech-understanding abilities of older
adults. Before proceeding to the identification of several such factors, however, it is important …

Dichotic listening is a well-established method to non-invasively assess hemispheric
specialization for processing of speech and other auditory stimuli. However, almost six …

Left-hemispheric language dominance has been suggested by observations in patients with
brain damages as early as the 19th century, and has since been confirmed by modern …

Men are often believed to have a functionally more asymmetrical brain organization than
women, but the empirical evidence for sex differences in lateralization is unclear to date …

A large proportion of older adults experience hearing loss. Yet, the impact of hearing loss on
the aging brain, particularly on large-scale brain networks that support cognition and …

These Guidelines are intended to provide guidance to clinicians, public agencies, the wider
community of professionals who need to know about auditory processing disorder (APD) …

Background The frontal lobe has been associated to a wide range of cognitive control
functions and is also vulnerable to degeneration in old age. A recent study by Thomsen and …

Objectives: The Dichotic Digits test (DDT) has been widely used to assess central auditory
processing but there is limited information on observed DDT performance in a general …

Despite having normal hearing sensitivity, patients with chronic tinnitus may experience
more difficulty recognizing speech in adverse listening conditions as compared to controls …

This article presents an overview of our studies in elderly and Alzheimer patients employing
Kimura's dichotic digits paradigm as a measure for left hemispheric predominance for …