Executive Function Associations With Audibility-Adjusted Speech Perception in Noise.

Purpose: Speech recognition in noise is challenging for listeners and appears to require support from executive functions to focus attention on rapidly unfolding target speech, track misunderstanding, and sustain attention. The current study was designed to test the hypothesis that lower executive f...

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Publicado en:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 67; no. 12; pp. 4811 - 4829
Autores principales: Eckert, Mark A., Matthews, Lois J., Vaden Jr., Kenneth I., Dubno, Judy R.
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Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Dec2024
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          Eckert, Mark A.
          Matthews, Lois J.
          Vaden Jr., Kenneth I.
          Dubno, Judy R.
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          Hearing Research Program, Department of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston
          Department of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery, Columbia University, New York, NY
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        Cross-sectional method
        Executive function
        Attention
        Sociodemographic factors
        Auditory perception testing
        Effect sizes (Statistics)
        Statistical correlation
        Noise
        Cognitive testing
        Dichotic listening tests
        Data analysis
        Statistical significance
        Research funding
        Cognitive processing speed
        Audiometric equipment
        Hearing aids
        Audiometry
        Listening
        Multivariate analysis
        Descriptive statistics
        Presbycusis
        Statistics
        Speech perception
        Hearing disorders
        Hearing levels
        Short-term memory
        Data analysis software
        Sensitivity & specificity (Statistics)
        Regression analysis
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          Executive function
          Attention
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          Auditory perception testing
          Effect sizes (Statistics)
          Statistical correlation
          Noise
          Cognitive testing
          Dichotic listening tests
          Data analysis
          Statistical significance
          Research funding
          Cognitive processing speed
          Audiometric equipment
          Hearing aids
          Audiometry
          Listening
          Multivariate analysis
          Descriptive statistics
          Presbycusis
          Statistics
          Speech perception
          Hearing disorders
          Hearing levels
          Short-term memory
          Data analysis software
          Sensitivity & specificity (Statistics)
          Regression analysis
      ab: Purpose: Speech recognition in noise is challenging for listeners and appears to require support from executive functions to focus attention on rapidly unfolding target speech, track misunderstanding, and sustain attention. The current study was designed to test the hypothesis that lower executive function abilities explain poorer speech recognition in noise, including among older participants with hearing loss who often exhibit diminished speech recognition in noise and cognitive abilities. Method: A cross-sectional sample of 400 younger-to-older adult participants (19 to < 90 years of age) from the community-based Medical University of South CarolinaLongitudinal Cohort Study of Age-related Hearing Loss were administered tasks with executive control demands to assess individual variability in a card-sorting measure of set-shifting/performance monitoring, a dichotic listening measure of selective attention/working memory, sustained attention, and processing speed. Key word recognition in the high- and low-context speech perception-in-noise (SPIN) tests provided measures of speech recognition in noise. The SPIN scores were adjusted for audibility using the Articulation Index to characterize the impact of varied hearing sensitivity unrelated to reduced audibility on cognitive and speech recognition associations. Results: Set-shifting, dichotic listening, and processing speed each explained unique and significant variance in audibility-adjusted, low-context SPIN scores (ps < .001), including after controlling for age, pure-tone threshold average (PTA), sex, and education level. The dichotic listening and processing speed effect sizes were significantly diminished when controlling for PTA, indicating that participants with poorer hearing sensitivity were also likely to have lower executive function and lower audibility-adjusted speech recognition. Conclusions: Poor set-shifting/performance monitoring, slow processing speed, and poor selective attention/working memory appeared to partially explain difficulties with speech recognition in noise after accounting for audibility. These results are consistent with the premise that distinct executive functions support speech recognition in noise.
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