Spoken Word Recognition in Listeners with Mild Dementia Symptoms.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Difficulty understanding speech is a common complaint of older adults. In quiet, speech perception is often assumed to be relatively automatic. However, higher-level cognitive processes play a key role in successful communication in noise. Limited cognitive resources in adults with dementia may therefore hamper word recognition.

Objective

The goal of this study was to determine the impact of mild dementia on spoken word recognition in quiet and noise.

Methods

Participants were 53-86 years with (n = 16) or without (n = 32) dementia symptoms as classified by the Clinical Dementia Rating scale. Participants performed a word identification task with two levels of word difficulty (few and many similar sounding words) in quiet and in noise at two signal-to-noise

SUBMITTER: McClannahan KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9885492 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature