Is there an influence of perceptual or cognitive impairment on complex sentence processing in hearing aid users?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hearing-impaired listeners often have difficulty understanding complex sentences. It is not clear if perceptual or cognitive deficits have more impact on reduced language processing abilities, and how a hearing aid might compensate for that.

Methods

In a prospective study with 5 hearing aid users and 5 normal hearing, age-matched participants, processing of complex sentences was investigated. Audiometric and working memory tests were performed. Subject- and object-initial sentences from the Oldenburg Corpus of Linguistically and audiologically controlled Sentences (OLACS) were presented to the participants during recording of an electroencephalogram (EEG).

Results

The perceptual difference between object and subject leading sentences does not lead to proces

SUBMITTER: Wagner L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10538791 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature