Interactions between audition and cognition  in hearing loss and aging

Cs, Rogers; Peelle, JE

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“…In addition, it should be noted that the differences we observed between young and older adults do not in themselves identify the underlying cause of the effect of age on syntactic comprehension. Age-related effects could, in part, be the result of declines in peripheral and central hearing (Rogers & Peelle, in press) or auditory-motor speech processing (Panouillères & Möttönen, 2017). However, in our study, accuracy across the board was relatively high for the older adults (specifically, the older adults’ group average accuracy was above 85% in the experimental conditions and even above 90% in the filler conditions).…”

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Evidence against preserved syntactic comprehension in healthy aging.

Poulisse¹,

Wheeldon²

2019

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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We investigated age-related differences in syntactic comprehension in young and older adults. Most previous research found no evidence of age-related decline in syntactic processing. We investigated elementary syntactic comprehension of minimal sentences (e.g., I cook), minimizing the influence of working memory. We also investigated the contribution of semantic processing by comparing sentences containing real verbs (e.g., I cook) versus pseudoverbs (e.g., I spuff). We measured the speed and accuracy of detecting syntactic agreement errors (e.g., I cooks, I spuffs). We found that older adults were slower and less accurate than younger adults in detecting syntactic agreement errors for both real and pseudoverb sentences, suggesting there is age-related decline in syntactic comprehension. The agerelated decline in accuracy was smaller for the pseudoverb sentences, and the decline in speed was larger for the pseudoverb sentences, compared to real verb sentences. We suggest that syntactic comprehension decline is stronger in the absence of semantic information, which causes older adults to produce slower responses to make more accurate decisions. In line with these findings, performance for older adults was positively related to a measure of processing speed capacity. Taken together, we found evidence that elementary syntactic processing abilities decline in healthy aging.

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Evidence against preserved syntactic comprehension in healthy aging.

Poulisse¹,

Wheeldon²

2019

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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“…In a review exploring the contribution of cognition to speech-in-noise listening, listening strategy selection was found to depend upon listener characteristics such as age, hearing status, linguistic competency, educational attainment, and cognitive status [ 87 ]. Metacognitive judgements (i.e., monitoring which the authors define as one’s awareness of cognitive processing) have been found to be largely preserved in older adults relative to younger adults but only to the extent that monitoring does not draw upon executive attention [ 88 ]. Further work is needed, building upon this body of work and the findings of this meta-synthesis, to understand the differential contribution of various listener characteristics on metacognitive knowledge, monitoring, and regulation in the context of HL.…”

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Perceived listening ability and hearing loss: Systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis

Hughes

Boisvert²,

McMahon³

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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Background Hearing loss (HL) can affect communication in complex ways. Understanding how adults with HL reflect on and conceptualise the way they listen (metacognition) is required if interventions, and the outcome measures used to evaluate them, are to address barriers to functional communication arising from HL. Objectives This study describes how adults with HL experience and report the processes, behaviours, and components of listening, as presented in published studies. Design Systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies. Methods Systematic searches identified English-language, peer-reviewed journal articles reporting the results of qualitative or mixed-methods studies of adults’ with HL perceived listening abilities. Medline, PsychInfo, Web of Science, Embase, and Google Scholar were searched from inception to November 2021. Handsearching reference lists of included studies identified additional studies for inclusion. The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) qualitative checklist was used to appraise studies’ methodological quality. Data from included studies were analysed using thematic meta-synthesis. The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) Confidence in the Evidence from Reviews of QUALitative (CERQual) approach assessed confidence in the review findings. Two reviewers independently completed all screening and quality appraisal. Thematic meta-synthesis and GRADE CERQual assessment was completed by one reviewer and confirmed by a second reviewer. Discrepancies were resolved through discussion. Results Data from 46 studies were included in the review. Thematic meta-synthesis identified six descriptive themes: 1) perceived listening ability; 2) external modifiers; 3) psychosocial impacts of hearing loss; 4) communication partner perspectives; 5) self-efficacy for listening; and 6) cognitive load. GRADE CERQual ratings for descriptive themes ranged from low to moderate confidence. Descriptive themes were related by analytic themes of liminality and reciprocity. Conclusions Adults with HL provide in-depth accounts of components and processes of listening, with studies reporting both cognitive and affective experiences consistent with theoretical models of metacognition. The findings will inform content generation for a hearing-specific patient-reported outcome measure of perceived listening ability in everyday communication.

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“…Indeed, difficulties understanding speech are one of the most prevalent complaints among older adults, especially in daily listening situations when listening conditions are not ideal (e.g., Abrams and Farrell, 2011 ). Although hearing deficits are a main source of difficulty in speech perception ( Humes et al, 1994 ; Humes, 2021 ), successful speech perception also depends on the interaction of bottom-up hearing related factors and top-down linguistic and cognitive processes ( Sommers, 2005 ; Zekveld et al, 2006 ; Pichora-Fuller, 2008 ; Rogers and Peelle, 2021 ). Furthermore, difficulties in speech perception are also observed among older adults with relatively preserved hearing ( Sommers and Danielson, 1999 ; Fostick et al, 2013 ; Lash et al, 2013 ).…”

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One Size Does Not Fit All: Examining the Effects of Working Memory Capacity on Spoken Word Recognition in Older Adults Using Eye Tracking

2022

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Difficulties understanding speech form one of the most prevalent complaints among older adults. Successful speech perception depends on top-down linguistic and cognitive processes that interact with the bottom-up sensory processing of the incoming acoustic information. The relative roles of these processes in age-related difficulties in speech perception, especially when listening conditions are not ideal, are still unclear. In the current study, we asked whether older adults with a larger working memory capacity process speech more efficiently than peers with lower capacity when speech is presented in noise, with another task performed in tandem. Using the Eye-tracking of Word Identification in Noise Under Memory Increased Load (E-WINDMIL) an adapted version of the “visual world” paradigm, 36 older listeners were asked to follow spoken instructions presented in background noise, while retaining digits for later recall under low (single-digit) or high (four-digits) memory load. In critical trials, instructions (e.g., “point at the candle”) directed listeners’ gaze to pictures of objects whose names shared onset or offset sounds with the name of a competitor that was displayed on the screen at the same time (e.g., candy or sandal). We compared listeners with different memory capacities on the time course for spoken word recognition under the two memory loads by testing eye-fixations on a named object, relative to fixations on an object whose name shared phonology with the named object. Results indicated two trends. (1) For older adults with lower working memory capacity, increased memory load did not affect online speech processing, however, it impaired offline word recognition accuracy. (2) The reverse pattern was observed for older adults with higher working memory capacity: increased task difficulty significantly decreases online speech processing efficiency but had no effect on offline word recognition accuracy. Results suggest that in older adults, adaptation to adverse listening conditions is at least partially supported by cognitive reserve. Therefore, additional cognitive capacity may lead to greater resilience of older listeners to adverse listening conditions. The differential effects documented by eye movements and accuracy highlight the importance of using both online and offline measures of speech processing to explore age-related changes in speech perception.

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Interactions between audition and cognition in hearing loss and aging

Cited by 6 publications

References 127 publications

Evidence against preserved syntactic comprehension in healthy aging.

Evidence against preserved syntactic comprehension in healthy aging.

Perceived listening ability and hearing loss: Systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis

One Size Does Not Fit All: Examining the Effects of Working Memory Capacity on Spoken Word Recognition in Older Adults Using Eye Tracking

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