Many aging adults experience some form of hearing problems that may arise from auditory
peripheral damage. However, it has been increasingly acknowledged that hearing loss is …

Aging listeners often experience difficulties in perceiving temporally complex acoustic cues
in noisy environments. These difficulties likely have neurophysiological contributors from …

Aging listeners, even in the absence of overt hearing loss measured as changes in hearing
thresholds, often experience impairments processing temporally complex sounds such as …

When selectively attending to a speech stream in multi-talker scenarios, low-frequency
cortical activity is known to synchronize selectively to fluctuations in the attended speech …

In social settings, speech waveforms from nearby speakers mix together in our ear canals.
Normally, the brain unmixes the attended speech stream from the chorus of background …

Auditory de-afferentation, a permanent reduction in the number of inner-hair-cells and
auditory-nerve synapses due to cochlear damage or synaptopathy, can reliably be …

The older listener's ability to understand speech in challenging environments may be
affected by impaired temporal processing. This review summarizes objective evidence of …

Stressful events can have lasting and impactful effects on behavior, especially by disrupting
normal regulation of fear and reward processing. Accurate discrimination among …

Sensitivity to temporal regularity (eg, recurring modulation in amplitude) is crucial for speech
perception. Degradation of the auditory periphery due to aging and hearing loss may lead to …

People with normal hearing thresholds can nonetheless have difficulty with understanding
speech in noisy backgrounds. The origins of such supra-threshold hearing deficits remain …