Working memory is important for online language processing during conversation. We use it
to maintain relevant information, to inhibit or ignore irrelevant information, and to attend to …

Accumulating evidence points to a link between age-related hearing loss and cognitive
decline, but their relationship is not clear. Does one cause the other, or does some third …

Abstract The Fifth Eriksholm Workshop on “Hearing Impairment and Cognitive Energy” was
convened to develop a consensus among interdisciplinary experts about what is known on …

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to many unintended, long-lasting consequences for
society. Preventative practices such as mask wearing, social distancing, and virtual …

This article presents a review of the effects of adverse conditions (ACs) on the perceptual,
linguistic, cognitive, and neurophysiological mechanisms underlying speech recognition …

Age-related hearing loss (ARHL), presbycusis, is a chronic health condition that affects
approximately one-third of the world's population. The peripheral and central hearing …

Background: The authors reviewed the evidence regarding the existence of age-related
declines in central auditory processes and the consequences of any such declines for …

Normal listeners possess the remarkable perceptual ability to select a single speech stream
among many competing talkers. However, few studies of selective attention have addressed …

A general working memory system for ease of language understanding (ELU, Rönnberg,) is
presented. The purpose of the system is to describe and predict the dynamic interplay …

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 …