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 …

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

Hearing loss with increasing age adversely affects the ability to understand speech, an effect
that results partly from reduced audibility. The aims of this study were to establish whether …

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 …

The problem of perceiving the sounds emanating from a particular sound source becomes
much more difficult when sounds from other independent sources occur at the same time …

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 …

Objectives: A common complaint of many older adults is difficulty communicating in
situations where they must focus on one talker in the presence of other people speaking. In …

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between
cognitive function, listening effort, and speech recognition for a group of younger and older …

Prepulse inhibition (PPI) is the attenuation of the startle reflex when the sudden intense
startling stimulus is shortly preceded by a weaker, non-startling sensory stimulus (prepulse) …

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 …