Speech comprehension training and auditory and cognitive processing in older adults

MK Pichora-Fuller, H Levitt - 2012 - ASHA
Purpose To provide a brief history of speech comprehension training systems and an
overview of research on auditory and cognitive aging as background to recommendations …

Older adults at the cocktail party

MK Pichora-Fuller, C Alain, BA Schneider - The auditory system at the …, 2017 - Springer
Successful communication and navigation in cocktail party situations depends on complex
interactions among an individual's sensory, cognitive, and social abilities. Older adults may …

Development of the word auditory recognition and recall measure: A working memory test for use in rehabilitative audiology

SL Smith, MK Pichora-Fuller, G Alexander - Ear and hearing, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to develop the Word Auditory Recognition and
Recall Measure (WARRM) and to conduct the inaugural evaluation of the performance of …

Working memory affects older adults' use of context in spoken-word recognition

E Janse, A Jesse - Quarterly Journal of Experimental …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Many older listeners report difficulties in understanding speech in noisy situations. Working
memory and other cognitive skills may modulate older listeners' ability to use context …

Associations between speech understanding and auditory and visual tests of verbal working memory: effects of linguistic complexity, task, age, and hearing loss

SL Smith, MK Pichora-Fuller - Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Listeners with hearing loss commonly report having difficulty understanding speech,
particularly in noisy environments. Their difficulties could be due to auditory and cognitive …

The frequency-following response to assess the neural representation of spectral speech cues in older adults

L Chauvette, P Fournier, A Sharp - Hearing Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Older adults often present difficulties understanding speech that cannot be explained by age-
related changes in sound audibility. Psychoacoustic and electrophysiologic studies have …

Speech-evoked ABR: effects of age and simulated neural temporal jitter

SK Mamo, JH Grose, E Buss - Hearing research, 2016 - Elsevier
The speech-evoked auditory brainstem response (sABR) provides a measure of encoding
complex stimuli in the brainstem, and this study employed the sABR to better understand the …

Neural representation of dynamic frequency is degraded in older adults

CG Clinard, CM Cotter - Hearing Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Older adults, even with clinically normal hearing sensitivity, often report difficulty
understanding speech in the presence of background noise. Part of this difficulty may be …

Relationship between domain-specific cognitive function and speech-in-noise performance in older adults: The atherosclerosis risk in communities hearing pilot study

SK Mamo, NS Reed, AR Sharrett, MS Albert… - American journal of …, 2019 - ASHA
Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate associations between performance on
a clinical speech-in-noise measure with a comprehensive neurocognitive battery of tests …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of face masks on speech understanding: a clinical perspective during speech audiometry

R Kumar, SK Munjal, A Sharma, MN Alam, NK Panda - Journal of Otology, 2022 - Elsevier
The objective was to measure the effect of various face masks on speech recognition
threshold and the word recognition score in the presence of varying background noise …