Unique patterns of hearing loss and cognition in older adults' neural responses to cues for speech recognition difficulty.

ABSTRACT: Older adults with hearing loss experience significant difficulties understanding speech in noise, perhaps due in part to limited benefit from supporting executive functions that enable the use of environmental cues signaling changes in listening conditions. Here we examined the degree to which 41 older adults (60.56-86.25 years) exhibited cortical responses to informative listening difficulty cues that communicated the listening difficulty for each trial compared to neutral cues that were uninformative of listening difficulty. Word recognition was significantly higher for informative compared to uninformative cues in a + 10 dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) condition, and response latencies were significantly shorter for informative cues in the + 10 dB SNR and the more-challenging + 2 dB SNR

SUBMITTER: Eckert MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9044122 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature