Recent advances in research and clinical practice concerning aging and auditory
communication have been driven by questions about age-related differences in peripheral …

The focus of this paper is on the effects of age on speech perception, with reference to
pertinent psychoacoustic findings. The difficulties of older listeners are related to the well …

Older adults frequently report they can hear what is said but cannot understand the
meaning, especially in noise. This difficulty may arise from the inability to process rapidly …

Language in old age has been an active research area since early experimental
investigations in cognitive aging (eg, Craik & Masani, 1967; Riegel & Riegel, 1964). This is …

Much of our daily communication occurs in the presence of background noise,
compromising our ability to hear. While understanding speech in noise is a challenge for …

Neural slowing is commonly noted in older adults, with consequences for sensory, motor,
and cognitive domains. One of the deleterious effects of neural slowing is impairment of …

With the advent of cognitive hearing science, increased attention has been given to
individual differences in cognitive functioning and their explanatory power in accounting for …

Over the last decade, much research has been conducted to investigate why older listeners
report more difficulty in understanding spoken language than would be expected given their …

Objective: To examine the effects of aging and age-related hearing loss on the perception
and neural representation of a time-varying speech cue. Methods: P1, N1 and P2 cortical …

Objective: Clinicians encounter patients who report experiencing hearing difficulty (HD)
even when audiometric thresholds fall within normal limits. When there is no evidence of …