Relations between speech-reception, psychophysical temporal processing, and subcortical electrophysiological measures of auditory function in humans.

ABSTRACT: There is a large amount of variability in performance in masked-speech reception tasks, as well as in psychophysical auditory temporal processing tasks, between listeners with normal or relatively normal low-frequency hearing. In this study we used a cross-sectional dataset collected on 102 listeners (34 young, 34 middle-aged, 34 older) to assess whether variance in these tasks could be explained by variance in subcortical electrophysiological measures of auditory function (auditory brainstem responses and frequency following responses), and whether variance in speech-reception performance could be explained by variance in auditory temporal processing tasks. The potential confounding effect of high-frequency sensitivity was strictly controlled for by using highpass masking noise. Because e

SUBMITTER: Carcagno S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8935383 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature