Large cross-sectional study of presbycusis reveals rapid progressive decline in auditory temporal acuity

Ozmeral, Erol J.; Eddins, Ann Clock; Frisina, D. Robert; Eddins, David A.

doi:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2015.12.024

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“…They are also less sensitive than younger adults to information in the temporal envelope (Fitzgibbons & Gordon-Salant, 1996;He, Mills, Ahlstrom, & Dubno, 2008). Notable is that at least some aspects of temporal processing appear to decline by middle age (Grose, Hall, & Buss, 2006;Grose & Mamo, 2010;Humes, Kewley-Port, Fogerty, & Kinney, 2010;Ozmeral, Eddins, Frisian, & Eddins, 2016). It is also possible that cochlear synaptopathy may begin to impact the resolution of auditory representations in middle age.…”

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Age-Related Changes in Objective and Subjective Speech Perception in Complex Listening Environments

Helfer

Merchant

Wasiuk

2017

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose: A frequent complaint by older adults is difficulty communicating in challenging acoustic environments. The purpose of this work was to review and summarize information about how speech perception in complex listening situations changes across the adult age range. Method: This article provides a review of age-related changes in speech understanding in complex listening environments and summarizes results from several studies conducted in our laboratory. Results: Both degree of high frequency hearing loss and cognitive test performance limit individuals' ability to understand speech in difficult listening situations as they age. The performance of middle-aged adults is similar to that of younger adults in the presence of noise maskers, but they experience substantially more difficulty when the masker is 1 or 2 competing speech messages. For the most part, middle-aged participants in studies conducted in our laboratory reported as much self-perceived hearing problems as did older adult participants. Conclusions: Research supports the multifactorial nature of listening in real-world environments. Current audiologic assessment practices are often insufficient to identify the true speech understanding struggles that individuals experience in these situations. This points to the importance of giving weight to patients' self-reported difficulties. Presentation Video: http://cred.pubs.asha.org/article. aspx?articleid=2601619This research forum contains papers from the 2016 Research Symposium at the ASHA Convention held in Philadelphia, PA.T he primary complaint of most adults with hearing impairment is difficulty understanding speech in noisy situations (Committee on Hearing Bioacoustics and Biomechanics, 1988;Pichora-Fuller, 1997). The most problematic situations reported by patients tend to be those that involve more than one intelligible talker. This is consistent with research demonstrating that older adults perform poorer than younger adults on laboratory-based tasks in which there are multiple speech sources, particularly when the competing speech is comprehensible (Helfer, Chevalier, & Freyman, 2010;Tun, O'Kane, & Wingfield, 2002).Why do these competing speech situations become more challenging as individuals age? The ability to understand a message in the presence of competing speech involves multiple levels of both peripheral and higher level processing, from segregating the message of interest from nonessential background signals to focusing and maintaining attention on the target stream, to decoding, understanding, and encoding the information into memory. Problems at any of these levels can lead to misunderstanding.An important contributor to these listening difficulties in adverse situations is the peripheral hearing loss that typically accompanies aging. High-frequency hearing loss attenuates and distorts the incoming acoustic signal and is the primary cause of problems understanding speech in noise (Arbogast, Mason, & Kidd, 2005;Marrone, Mason, & Kidd, 2008). However, other intrinsic variables als...

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Age-Related Changes in Objective and Subjective Speech Perception in Complex Listening Environments

Helfer

Merchant

Wasiuk

2017

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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“…Such an aging effect has been found in earlier studies as well (e.g., [47–49]). From these studies, it is not yet clear how this effect relates to the general age-related decline in acoustic hearing (presbyacusis) that starts at around 40 years of age (e.g., [50–52]). The fact that the CI users in the present study did not show a corresponding aging effect on affective prosodic recognition suggests that deficits in affective prosody perception at least partially result from age-related hearing impairment: Presbyacusis is thought to be caused by damages to the inner ear structures, which are bypassed in electrical hearing with the CI (e.g., [17,23,53]).…”

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Multisensory emotion perception in congenitally, early, and late deaf CI users

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Emotions are commonly recognized by combining auditory and visual signals (i.e., vocal and facial expressions). Yet it is unknown whether the ability to link emotional signals across modalities depends on early experience with audio-visual stimuli. In the present study, we investigated the role of auditory experience at different stages of development for auditory, visual, and multisensory emotion recognition abilities in three groups of adolescent and adult cochlear implant (CI) users. CI users had a different deafness onset and were compared to three groups of age- and gender-matched hearing control participants. We hypothesized that congenitally deaf (CD) but not early deaf (ED) and late deaf (LD) CI users would show reduced multisensory interactions and a higher visual dominance in emotion perception than their hearing controls. The CD (n = 7), ED (deafness onset: <3 years of age; n = 7), and LD (deafness onset: >3 years; n = 13) CI users and the control participants performed an emotion recognition task with auditory, visual, and audio-visual emotionally congruent and incongruent nonsense speech stimuli. In different blocks, participants judged either the vocal (Voice task) or the facial expressions (Face task). In the Voice task, all three CI groups performed overall less efficiently than their respective controls and experienced higher interference from incongruent facial information. Furthermore, the ED CI users benefitted more than their controls from congruent faces and the CD CI users showed an analogous trend. In the Face task, recognition efficiency of the CI users and controls did not differ. Our results suggest that CI users acquire multisensory interactions to some degree, even after congenital deafness. When judging affective prosody they appear impaired and more strongly biased by concurrent facial information than typically hearing individuals. We speculate that limitations inherent to the CI contribute to these group differences.

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“…Some other symptoms of ARHL include deteriorated sensitivity to signals with longer durations and other temporal cues, a decrease in speech comprehension (especially in noisy environments), slowed processing of acoustic signals, and impaired sound localization (Florentine, Fastl, & Buus, 1988;Gates & Mills, 2005;Huang & Tang, 2010;Ozmeral, Eddins, Frisina, & Eddins, 2016;Schuknecht & Gacek, 1993). The symptoms of ARHL are also expressed differently across the sexes, with males becoming progressively less sensitive earlier and at a faster rate than females (Gates & Cooper, 1991;Pearson et al, 1995;Tambs, Hoffman, Borchgrevink, Holmen, & Samuelsen, 2003).…”

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The effects of age and sex on the detection of pure tones by adult CBA/CaJ mice (Mus musculus)

Kobrina

Dent

2019

J of Neuroscience Research

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Age‐related hearing loss (ARHL) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a gradual decrease in hearing sensitivity. Previous electrophysiological and behavioral studies have demonstrated that the CBA/CaJ mouse strain is an appropriate model for the late‐onset hearing loss found in humans. However, few studies have characterized hearing in these mice behaviorally using longitudinal methodologies. The goal of this research was to utilize a longitudinal design and operant conditioning procedures with positive reinforcement to construct audiograms and temporal integration functions in aging CBA/CaJ mice. In the first experiment, thresholds were collected for 8, 16, 24, 42, and 64 kHz pure tones in 30 male and 35 female CBA/CaJ mice. Similar to humans, mice had higher thresholds for high frequency tones than for low frequency pure tones across the lifespan. Female mice had better hearing acuity than males after 645 days of age. In the second experiment, temporal integration functions were constructed for 18 male and 18 female mice for 16 and 64 kHz tones varying in duration. Mice showed an increase in thresholds for tones shorter than 200 ms, reaching peak performance at shorter durations than other rodent species. Overall, CBA/CaJ mice experience ARHL for pure tones of different frequencies and durations, making them a good model for studies on hearing loss. These findings highlight the importance of using a wide range of stimuli and a longitudinal design when comparing presbycusis across different species.

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Large cross-sectional study of presbycusis reveals rapid progressive decline in auditory temporal acuity

Cited by 47 publications

References 42 publications

Age-Related Changes in Objective and Subjective Speech Perception in Complex Listening Environments

Age-Related Changes in Objective and Subjective Speech Perception in Complex Listening Environments

Multisensory emotion perception in congenitally, early, and late deaf CI users

The effects of age and sex on the detection of pure tones by adult CBA/CaJ mice (Mus musculus)

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