Recent research has linked age-related hearing loss to impaired performance across
cognitive domains and increased risk for dementia diagnosis. The data linking hearing …

A common complaint among listeners with hearing loss (HL) is that they have difficulty
communicating in common social settings. This article reviews how normal-hearing listeners …

Normal aging is an inevitable race between increasing knowledge and decreasing cognitive
capacity. Crucial to understanding and promoting successful aging is determining which of …

Listening to speech is often demanding because of signal degradations and the presence of
distracting sounds (ie,“noise”). The question how the brain achieves the task of extracting …

Objectives: Recent research has demonstrated that pupil dilation, a measure of mental effort
(cognitive processing load), is sensitive to differences in speech intelligibility. The present …

Cognitive Hearing Science or Auditory Cognitive Science is an emerging field of
interdisciplinary research concerning the interactions between hearing and cognition. It …

Older individuals often find it difficult to communicate, especially in group situations,
because they are unable to keep up with the flow of conversation or are too slow in …

Abstract Human alpha (~ 10 Hz) oscillatory power is a prominent neural marker of cognitive
effort. When listeners attempt to process and retain acoustically degraded speech, alpha …

Age-related decline in hearing abilities is a ubiquitous part of aging, and commonly impacts
speech understanding, especially when there are competing sound sources. While such …

As people grow older, speech perception difficulties become highly prevalent, especially in
noisy listening situations. Moreover, it is assumed that speech intelligibility is more affected …