Sensory abilities decline with age. More than 5% of the world's population, approximately
360 million people, have disabling hearing loss. In adults, disabling hearing loss is defined …

Working memory is important for online language processing during conversation. We use it
to maintain relevant information, to inhibit or ignore irrelevant information, and to attend to …

Abstract The Fifth Eriksholm Workshop on “Hearing Impairment and Cognitive Energy” was
convened to develop a consensus among interdisciplinary experts about what is known on …

Objective: A great deal of variability exists in the speech-recognition abilities of postlingually
deaf adult cochlear implant (CI) recipients. A number of previous studies have shown that …

Many standardized measures of cognition include items that must be seen or heard.
Nevertheless, it is not uncommon to overlook the possible effects of sensory impairment (s) …

Age-related decline in auditory perception reflects changes in the peripheral and central
auditory systems. These age-related changes include a reduced ability to detect minute …

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine whether the processing of temporal
fine structure diminishes with age, even in the presence of relatively normal audiometric …

Normal-hearing older adults often experience increased difficulties understanding speech in
noise. In addition, they benefit less from amplitude fluctuations in the masker. These …

Age-related hearing loss (ARHL), also called presbycusis, is a progressive disorder affecting
hearing functions and among the elderly has been recognized as the third most frequent …

Aging is accompanied by the deterioration of hearing that complicates our understanding of
speech, especially in noisy environments. This deficit is partially caused by the loss of hair …