Predictive Sentence Context Reduces Listening Effort in Older Adults With and Without Hearing Loss and With High and Low Working Memory Capacity.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Listening effort is needed to understand speech that is degraded by hearing loss, a noisy environment, or both. This in turn reduces cognitive spare capacity, the amount of cognitive resources available for allocation to concurrent tasks. Predictive sentence context enables older listeners to perceive speech more accurately, but how does contextual information affect older adults' listening effort? The current study examines the impacts of sentence context and cognitive (memory) load on sequential dual-task behavioral performance in older adults. To assess whether effects of context and memory load differ as a function of older listeners' hearing status, baseline working memory capacity, or both, effects were compared across separate groups of participants with and witho

SUBMITTER: Hunter CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9232842 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul-Aug 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature