The Impact of Age, Background Noise, Semantic Ambiguity, and Hearing Loss on Recognition Memory for Spoken Sentences.

Purpose: The goal of this study was to determine how background noise, linguistic properties of spoken sentences, and listener abilities (hearing sensitivity and verbal working memory) affect cognitive demand during auditory sentence comprehension. Method: We tested 30 young adults and 30 older adul...

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Published in:	Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 61; no. 3; pp. 740 - 752
Main Authors:	Koeritzer, Margaret A., Rogers, Chad S., Van Engen, Kristin J., Peelle, Jonathan E.
Format:	Article
Published:	American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Mar2018
Subjects:	Cognitive ability Listening comprehension Sentences (Grammar) Ambiguity Noise
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