APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Persisting through the Cocktail Party: Speech Recognition in Healthy Aging
- Susan Teubner-Rhodes
Auburn University - Kenneth Vaden
Medical University of South Carolina - Lois Matthews
Medical University of South Carolina - Judy Dubno
Medical University of South Carolina - Mark Eckert
Medical University of South Carolina
Abstract
The ability to recognize speech in background noise declines with age, in part due to declines in attentional control. Given this increased task difficulty, we examined how attentional control and cognitive persistence affect speech-in-noise recognition in aging. Cognitive persistence, but not attentional control, predicted speech-in-noise recognition in older adults.
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