Aging and Speech-in-Noise Perception

Emami, Seyede Faranak; Shariatpanahi, Elnaz; Gohari, Nasrin; Mehrabifard, Mobina

doi:10.1007/s12070-023-03689-2

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“…Speech-in-noise perception is also done with the participation of all areas of the brain. The neural centers for speech perception are various and temporal lobe is influenced by several sensory processings and mechanisms, the auditory brain is not actually monosensory and had multi-modal processing [ 38 , 50 , 51 ].…”

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Central Representation of Cervical Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials

Emami

2023

Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

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Sensitivity of vestibular system to sounds (SVSS) can be measureable by cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMPs). The aim of this study is to investigate central representation of vestibular system sensitivity to sound. The research was conducted in 2022–2023 by searching English language databases. The criterion for selecting documents was their overlap with the aim of this work. The animals studies were not included. The saccule is stimulated by sounds, that are transmitted through air and bone conduction. Utricle and semicircular canals are activated only by the vibrations. The afferent nerve fibers of the vestibular system project to the temporal, frontal, parietal, primary visual cortex, insula and the cingulate cortex. There is a relationship between normal results of the cVEMPs and these parameters. Improved phonemes recognition scores and word recognition scores in white noise, the efficiency of auditory training, incraed amplitude of the auditory brainstem responses to 500 HZ tone burst. Learning the first words is not only based on the hearing and other senses participate. The auditory object is a three-dimensional imaging in people's minds, when they hear a word. The words expressed by a speaker create different auditory objects in people's minds. Each of these auditory objects has its own color, shape, aroma and characteristics. For the formation of the auditory objects, all senses and whole areas of the brain contribute. Like other senses, central representation of vestibular system sensitivity to sound are also involved in the formation of auditory objects.

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Central Representation of Cervical Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials

Emami

2023

Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

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“…(3) Interpreting or learning the first words in the mother tongue and understanding their meaning. (4) Perception or understanding of the meaning and grammatical position of the learned words is done by the WINP test, and the test materials include HMWs, that have a fixed vowel in each list (Additional file 1: Appendix 1) [1][2][3][4].…”

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“…Perception and production of speech interact with each other and each is a substructure of the other [4]. In such a way that without understanding the meaning of a sentence, it is not possible to express that sentence, and without expressing a sentence, it is not possible to understand it [1,2].…”

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“…For example, young children pronounce voiced vowels and consonants and are unable to produce voiceless consonants. These incomplete words they produce are meaningful to them, although they may not be understandable to others [3,4].…”

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“…At birth, there is no ability to recognize the gender differences in speakers' voices, and this ability gradually develops with age [1]. Determining the difference between noise and the speaker's speech requires a decade of listening experience [4]. Since the maturation of the neural system of speech perception and its related areas continues until the age of 14, at younger ages, the ability to understand speech in noise is weaker than that of adults [4,5].…”

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Word-in-noise perception test in children

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Shariatpanahi,

Gohari

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Egypt J Otolaryngol

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Background The word-in-noise discrimination test evaluates the phonological aspect of speech based on the detection of the vowels. While word-in-noise perception (WINP) test is one of the speech perception exams and evaluates the ability to understand the meaning of words by discovering the consonants. Until now, all word-in-noise tests have assessed speech discrimination performance, and for the first time, the normal values of the WINP test for adults have been determined. Since the normal values of WINP scores in children have not been reported, our research aimed to determine the normal values of the WINP test in children aged 5 to 13 years. In this cross-sectional study, 120 Persian speaking Iranain children with normal hearing thresholds were evaluated from the beginning to the end of spring 2023. We divided them into 4 age groups (A = 5–7 < years, B = 7–9 < years, C = 9–11 < years, D = 11–13 < years). The evaluations included general audiology tests and WINP tests using homtonic-monosyllabic words (HMWs) at a signal-to-noise ratio of 5 dB. Results Significant difference was observed between the mean scores of the WINP test in age group A (54%) compared to age group B (66%), (Pv = 0.04). Also, the differences between the mean scores of age group A compared to age groups C (70%) and D (69%) were significant (Pv = 0.01, Pv = 0.03). Conclusions This article presented the norm values of WINP test scores for Persian speaking Iranian children aged 5 to 13 years. The norm values of WINP test scores in the age group of 5–7 years were lower than in the age groups of 7–13 years. The biggest change in the performance of speech perception in noise was observed in the age range of 7–9 years.

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