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 …

Background: Older adults, with or without normal peripheral hearing sensitivity, have
difficulty understanding speech. This impaired speech perception may, in part, be due to …

As people age, speech perception problems become highly prevalent, especially in noisy
situations. In addition to peripheral hearing and cognition, temporal processing plays a key …

Objective: This experiment was designed to evaluate whether neural encoding of speech
features at the brain stem level is altered in the aging auditory system. In addition, the effect …

Aging is associated with declines in auditory processing including speech comprehension
abilities. Here, we evaluated both brainstem and cortical speech-evoked brain responses to …

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

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 …

Age-related deficits in speech understanding are well documented. Because speech is a
complex signal, containing time-varying acoustic cues, it is frequently hypothesized that …

When we grow older, understanding speech in noise becomes more challenging. Research
has demonstrated the role of auditory temporal and cognitive deficits in these age-related …

Age-related declines in coding the fine temporal structure of acoustic signals is proposed to
play a critical role in the speech perception difficulties commonly observed in older …