Cognitive resources related to speech recognition with a competing talker in young and older listeners

Attention, Memory, and Auditory Processing in 10- to 15-Year-Old Children With Listening Difficulties

“…Auditory short-term and workingmemory skills likely facilitate speech understanding in the presence of noise by allowing the listener to temporarily store and actively process the auditory information to link related information across time and to form coherent representations while ignoring irrelevant distractions (Arlinger, Lunner, Lyxell, & Pichora-Fuller, 2009;Conway et al, 2001;Kraus, Strait, & Parbery-Clark, 2012;Pichora-Fuller, Schneider, & Daneman, 1995). This is consistent with earlier studies conducted on adult listeners indicating that the performance on speech recognition in competing speech is strongly correlated to verbal working memory skills (Kraus et al, 2012;Meister et al, 2013;Rudner, Lunner, Behrens, Sundewall Thorén, & Rönnberg, 2012).…”

The influence of informational masking on speech perception and pupil response in adults with hearing impairment

“…This was also suggested by (Best et al, 2010;Meister et al, 2013) who investigated the influence of attention on speech intelligibility. Best et al (2010) showed the benefit of only focusing on one instead of two sentences in a speech in noise task.…”

“…Best et al (2010) showed the benefit of only focusing on one instead of two sentences in a speech in noise task. Additionally, Meister et al (2013) indicated that speech recognition was related to WM skills when selective attention in contrast to divided attention was required. Future studies should examine to what extent selective attention exploited during listening to speech in different types of noise influences both the SRT and PPD.…”

Speech-in-Speech Listening on the LiSN-S Test by Older Adults With Good Audiograms Depends on Cognition and Hearing Acuity at High Frequencies

“…In contrast, in the present study we found that all the advantage measures were poorer for the older group than for the younger group. Younger and older listeners also achieved similar word recognition accuracy when they were instructed to focus on one of the two simultaneous speech streams (Meister et al 2012), although older adults may need more time than the younger adults to segregate target speech from a speech masker (Ben-David et al 2012;Ezzatian et al under review). Surprisingly, the talker advantage of the present study's older group (8.2 dB) was higher than that of any group in the study of Cameron et al This apparent discrepancy in the results may stem from the test differences between the North-American and the Australian version of the LiSN-S test in terms of dialect and/or talker variability.…”