Cognitive Flexibility and Inhibition in Individuals with Age-Related Hearing Loss.

ABSTRACT: Growing evidence suggests alterations in cognitive control processes in individuals with varying degrees of age-related hearing loss (ARHL); however, alterations in those with unaided mild ARHL are understudied. The current study examined two cognitive control processes, cognitive flexibility, and inhibition, in 21 older adults with unaided mild ARHL and 18 age- and education-matched normal hearing (NH) controls. All participants underwent comprehensive audiological and cognitive evaluations including Trail Making Test-B, Verbal Fluency, Stroop, and two Go/NoGo tasks. Group differences in cognitive flexibility and inhibition as well as associations between peripheral and central hearing ability and measures of cognitive flexibility and inhibition were investigated. Findings revealed that t

SUBMITTER: Shende SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8006052 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature