Age and Hearing Ability Influence Selective Attention During Childhood.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The purpose of the present study was to determine whether age and hearing ability influence selective attention during childhood. Specifically, we hypothesized that immaturity and disrupted auditory experience impede selective attention during childhood.

Design

Seventy-seven school-age children (5 to 12 years of age) participated in this study: 61 children with normal hearing and 16 children with bilateral hearing loss who use hearing aids and/or cochlear implants. Children performed selective attention-based behavioral change detection tasks comprised of target and distractor streams in the auditory and visual modalities. In the auditory modality, children were presented with two streams of single-syllable words spoken by a male and female talker. In the visual m

SUBMITTER: Ward KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9232837 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul-Aug 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature