Recent advances in research and clinical practice concerning aging and auditory
communication have been driven by questions about age-related differences in peripheral …

Similar in outline to its two predecessors (Fozard, 1990; Kline & Scialfa, 1996), the present
chapter is based on a search of over 600 articles published in 1994-1999. The number of …

Language in old age has been an active research area since early experimental
investigations in cognitive aging (eg, Craik & Masani, 1967; Riegel & Riegel, 1964). This is …

Although there has been keen interest in the association among measures of sensory
function and cognitive function for many years, in general, measures of sensory function …

Objective The first specific aim of the present study is to compare the ability of normal-
hearing and cochlear implant listeners to use temporal cues in three music perception tasks …

Perceptual consequences of disrupted auditory nerve activity were systematically studied in
21 subjects who had been clinically diagnosed with auditory neuropathy (AN), a recently …

Temporal auditory acuity, the ability to discriminate rapid changes in the envelope of a
sound, is essential for speech comprehension. Human envelope following responses …

Age-related deficits in speech-in-noise understanding pose a significant problem for older
adults. Despite the vast number of studies conducted to investigate the neural mechanisms …

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between
cognitive function, listening effort, and speech recognition for a group of younger and older …

Selective deficits in aphasic patients' grammatical production and comprehension are often
cited as evidence that syntactic processing is modular and localizable in discrete areas of …