A Novel Communication Value Task Demonstrates Evidence of Response Bias in Cases with Presbyacusis.

ABSTRACT: Decision-making about the expected value of an experience or behavior can explain hearing health behaviors in older adults with hearing loss. Forty-four middle-aged to older adults (68.45 ± 7.73 years) performed a task in which they were asked to decide whether information from a surgeon or an administrative assistant would be important to their health in hypothetical communication scenarios across visual signal-to-noise ratios (SNR). Participants also could choose to view the briefly presented sentences multiple times. The number of these effortful attempts to read the stimuli served as a measure of demand for information to make a health importance decision. Participants with poorer high frequency hearing more frequently decided that information was important to their health compared to

SUBMITTER: Eckert MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5705661 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature