Hearing Loss Is Negatively Related to Episodic and Semantic Long-Term Memory but Not to Short-Term Memory

Rönnberg, Jerker; Danielsson, Henrik; Rudner, Mary; Arlinger, Stig; Sternäng, Ola; Wåhlin, Åke; Nilsson, Lars‐Göran

doi:10.1044/1092-4388(2010/09-0088)

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“…The results were interpreted in terms of the ELU model: with a larger number of mismatches occurring in everyday life communication, subsequent encoding and retrieval from episodic long-term memory occur with less frequency and with reduced memory practice as a result. Short-term memory and working memory for visually presented stimuli are however not affected by acquired hearing loss (Lyxell et al, 2003;Rönnberg et al, 2011).…”

Section: Episodic Memory and Hearing Impairmentmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…Several studies have found a relationship between hearing loss and reduced recall in visually presented episodic memory tasks (Baltes & Lindenberger, 1997;Pearman, Friedman, Brooks & Yesavage, 2000;Rönnberg et al, 2011;Valentijn et al, 2005). Rönnberg et al (2011) found that the degree of WORKING MEMORY COMPENSATES hearing loss negatively affected episodic long-term memory despite the fact that the sample studied wore hearing aids and that chronological age was statistically accounted for. The results were interpreted in terms of the ELU model: with a larger number of mismatches occurring in everyday life communication, subsequent encoding and retrieval from episodic long-term memory occur with less frequency and with reduced memory practice as a result.…”

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Working memory compensates for hearing related phonological processing deficit

Classon

Rudner

Rönnberg

2013

Journal of Communication Disorders

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Abbreviations: ELU, ease of language understanding model; WMC, working memory capacity; R+, rhyming; R-, non-rhyming; O+, orthographically similar; O-, orthographically dissimilar; RAMBPHO, rapid automatic binding of phonology; NAM, neighbourhood activation model; SOA, stimulus onset asynchrony; ERP, event-related potentials; HI, hearing impairment; BestEarPTA, best ear pure tone average; NH, normal hearing; RSPM, Ravens standard progressive matrices; DLS, diagnostic tests of reading and writing; NH-High, normal hearing and high WMC; NH-Low, normal hearing and low WMC; HI-High, hearing impairment and high WMC; HI-Low, hearing impairment and low WMC. WORKING MEMORY COMPENSATES AbstractAcquired hearing impairment is associated with gradually declining phonological representations. According to the Ease of Language Understanding (ELU) model, poorly defined representations lead to mismatch in phonologically challenging tasks. To resolve the mismatch, reliance on working memory capacity (WMC) increases. This study investigated whether WMC modulated performance in a phonological task in individuals with hearing impairment. A visual rhyme judgment task with congruous or incongruous orthography, followed by an incidental episodic recognition memory task, was used. In participants with hearing impairment, WMC modulated both rhyme judgment performance and recognition memory in the orthographically similar non-rhyming condition; those with high WMC performed exceptionally well in the judgment task, but later recognized few of the words. For participants with hearing impairment and low WMC the pattern was reversed; they performed poorly in the judgment task but later recognized a surprisingly large proportion of the words. Results indicate that good WMC can compensate for the negative impact of auditory deprivation on phonological processing abilities by allowing for efficient use of phonological processing skills. They also suggest that individuals with hearing impairment and low WMC may use a non-phonological approach to written words, which can have the beneficial side effect of improving memory encoding.

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Working memory compensates for hearing related phonological processing deficit

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Rönnberg

2013

Journal of Communication Disorders

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“…It has also been suggested that listeners apparently retain nonlinguistic information such as attributes of speech signal like speaker's gender, dialect, speaking rate and emotional state in the LTM (Pisoni, 1993). Recent work shows that age-related hearing loss is associated with decline in LTM Rönnberg et al, 2011). The mechanism behind this association may be that hearing loss leads to more mismatch according to the ELU model due to poor audibility and distortion of the input signal and thus less access to and use of LTM .…”

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Exploring Cognitive Spare Capacity : Executive Processing of Degraded Speech

Mishra¹

2014

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Cognitive resources, specifically working memory capacity are used for listening to speech, especially in noise. Cognitive resources are limited, and if listeners allocate a greater share of these resources to recovering the input signal in noise, fewer resources are available for interpreting and encoding its linguistic content. Although the importance of CSC for individual success in communicative situations has been acknowledged, this concept has not hitherto been explored experimentally. In this thesis, a CSC test (CSCT) was developed and administered to young adults with normal hearing and older adults with age-related hearing loss. CSCT required executive processing of speech at different memory loads with and without visual cues in different noise conditions. A free recall task using the same material was administered for comparison purposes and a battery of cognitive tests was administered to understand the relation between CSC and established cognitive concepts. The aims of the thesis were to investigate how CSC is influenced by 1) different executive demands and memory loads; 2) background noise; 3) visual cues; 4) aging and concomitant hearing loss. The results showed that 1) CSC was sensitive to memory load, and updating demands reduced CSC more than inhibition demands; 2) CSC was reduced in background noise compared to quiet; 3) visual cues enhanced CSC especially in noise; 4) CSC was reduced with ageing and concomitant hearing loss especially when visual cues were absent, memory demands were increased and background noise was speech-like. The main finding of this thesis was that visual cues enhanced CSC for older individuals with hearing loss, specifically in adverse listening conditions. This demonstrates the importance of audiovisual testing in audiological assessment. Further, specific cognitive resources depleted during listening in noise were at least partially compensated by other cognitive functions. This thesis is the first step towards a theoretical understanding of CSC and in future, tests of CSC may play a crucial role in planning rehabilitation of persons with hearing loss.

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“…For example, sentence comprehension in noise may be impaired as a consequence of age-related decrements in processing speed [39], auditory stream segregation [40], and auditory memory [41][42][43]. A number of studies have found small age-related increases in SeRTs in ONH subjects [2,37,[44][45][46].…”

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Age-related changes in consonant and sentence processing

Woods

Doss²,

Herron³

et al. 2012

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Abstract-Speech understanding in noise declines with age, even in older subjects with normal hearing (ONH). These agerelated declines could reflect reductions in phonological processing ability or impairments in semantic and lexical processing required for sentence understanding. In experiment 1, we used the California Syllable Test (CaST) to examine age-related changes in the ability of subjects to identify consonants in consonant-vowel-consonant syllables in noise. ONH subjects showed impaired performance in comparison with younger subjects with normal hearing, particularly for hard-to-identify consonants, but otherwise showed similar influences of consonant position, lexicality, and vowel nuclei. Regression analyses showed that CaST performance was independently affected by both age and audiometric thresholds. In experiment 2, we examined sentence reception thresholds (SeRTs) using the Quick Speech in Noise Test and Hearing in Noise Test. No significant age-related changes in SeRTs were observed for either test. SeRT preservation in ONH subjects appeared to reflect the ageresistant ability to identify easy consonants in noise as well as intact top-down contextual and lexical processing. These results establish benchmark values that can be used to evaluate the success of audiological rehabilitation in older subjects with hearing impairment.

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Hearing Loss Is Negatively Related to Episodic and Semantic Long-Term Memory but Not to Short-Term Memory

Cited by 107 publications

References 80 publications

Working memory compensates for hearing related phonological processing deficit

Working memory compensates for hearing related phonological processing deficit

Exploring Cognitive Spare Capacity : Executive Processing of Degraded Speech

Age-related changes in consonant and sentence processing

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