The relationship between intellectual ability and auditory multitalker speech perception in neurodivergent individuals.

ABSTRACT: The ability to selectively attend to one talker in the presence of competing talkers is crucial to communication in noisy, real-world environments. In this study, we investigated the relationship between intellectual ability and speech perception under multitalker conditions. Since neurodivergent individuals show a wide range of intellectual ability, from above average IQ to intellectual disability, intellectual ability may be an important individual characteristic that impacts multitalker speech perception, but this is not currently well understood. We tested individuals with autism, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, and an age- and sex-matched comparison group, all with typical hearing. We found a strong positive correlation between IQ and multitalker speech perception thresholds. This de

SUBMITTER: Lau BK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12459794 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature