Speech Recognition in Noise by Younger and Older Adults
Autor: | Chloë De Boom, Carolien Boel, Marleen De Sloovere, Katrien Vermeire, Marilina Talaveron-Rodriguez, Silke Auwers, Laura Schenus, Allart Knoop |
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Přispěvatelé: | Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery |
Rok vydání: | 2015 |
Předmět: |
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Male Aging medicine.medical_specialty Speech perception Hearing loss Stepwise regression analysis Central auditory processing Audiology Speech in noise Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine otorhinolaryngologic diseases medicine Humans Hearing Loss 030223 otorhinolaryngology Aged Aged 80 and over business.industry Age Factors General Medicine Middle Aged Noise Otorhinolaryngology Younger adults Temporal resolution Auditory Perception Speech Perception Female medicine.symptom business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
Zdroj: | Annals of Otology Rhinology and Laryngology, 125(4), 297-302. SAGE Publishing |
ISSN: | 1943-572X 0003-4894 |
Popis: | Objectives: Purpose of the present study is to evaluate the effects of aging on temporal resolution and speech understanding in noise. Methods: Twenty-seven young and 33 older normal hearing adults participated in this study. Temporal resolution was investigated using the Gaps in Noise (GIN) test. Understanding sentences in noise was investigated using a Dutch sentences (LIST) test. Results: Results demonstrated that older adults have significantly worse temporal resolution scores and significantly greater difficulty understanding sentences in noise than younger adults. In the group of older adults, the ability to understand sentences in noise correlated with hearing and age. A stepwise regression analysis showed that age was the best predictor for the speech in noise results. However, temporal resolution correlated with hearing, not with age. Results from the GIN test did not correlate with the results from the LIST test. Conclusions: The present study shows that with advancing age, both temporal resolution and speech understanding in noise significantly diminish. Temporal resolution correlates with hearing, not age, while speech understanding correlates more with age than hearing. These results could have implications for the outcome of auditory prostheses in older adults, as both diminished temporal resolution and speech understanding have to be taken into account. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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