Age-related hearing impairment (ARHI, also known as presbycusis) is potentially a
reversible risk factor for dementia and Alzheimer disease (AD). Social isolation, loneliness …

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 …

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 …

A general working memory system for ease of language understanding (ELU, Rönnberg,) is
presented. The purpose of the system is to describe and predict the dynamic interplay …

Humans have a remarkable ability to track and understand speech in unfavorable
conditions, such as in background noise, but speech understanding in noise does …

Aging results in pervasive declines in nervous system function. In the auditory system, these
declines include neural timing delays in response to fast-changing speech elements; this …

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

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 …

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 …