Influência da cognição em habilidades auditivas de idosos pré e pós-adaptação de próteses auditivas

Abstract

Purpose: To determine if auditory skills test results correlated with cognitive performance and evaluate their influence on hearing aid fittings in the elderly population. Methods: This study was carried out with 12 hearing-impaired individuals over 60 years of age. They were cognitively assessed with the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD) battery assessment. The instruments used to evaluate resolution and temporal ordering, as well as separation and binaural integration, were the Random Gap Detection Test, Duration Pattern Sequence and Pitch Pattern Sequence, and Dichotic Digits Tests. Their auditory abilities were evaluated before and three months after the hearing aid fittings. The data were statistically correlated to the data obtained from the cognitive assessments. Results: Ordering and temporal resolution were related to some cognitive assessments. The difference in some auditory abilities performance of temporal ordering and temporal resolution after the acclimatization period was inversely related to some cognitive assessments. Conclusion: In the elderly the better the performance on the auditory temporal skills, the better the cognitive test results. However, when analyzing the difference in performance between the auditory abilities before and after the hearing aid fittings, the patients with the worst cognitive performance showed the most improvement. This demonstrates that there is a possibility of neural plasticity stimulation, even in those with cognitive impairment. Keywords

Frequency-Following Response in the Elderly Population: A Speech Decoding Analysis

“…There is significant evidence of impairments in acoustic signal processing, as well as neurophysiological changes in the central auditory nervous system with the aging process (SARDONE, 2019;TESSELE, 2022). Also, cognitive influences on behavioral responses in this population are highlighted, which do not seem to reflect and do not represent the actual performance of individuals (JAIN, 2019;LESSA, 2016;BRUCKMANN, 2022). Thus, the need for this research is clear, which seeks to contribute to the speech therapy clinic for the objective measurement of responses related to speech decoding.…”