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Auditory-visual speech perception and aging.

Kathleen M Cienkowski1, Arlene Earley Carney

  • 1Department of Communication Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs 06269, USA. cienkows@uconnvm.uconn.edu

Ear and Hearing
|November 2, 2002
PubMed
Summary

Older adults integrate auditory and visual speech information as effectively as younger adults, but rely more on visual cues when integration fails. Lipreading ability in older adults did not correlate with this integration success.

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Area of Science:

  • Auditory and Visual Speech Perception
  • Gerontology
  • Multisensory Integration

Background:

  • Speech perception relies on integrating auditory and visual cues.
  • Aging can affect multisensory integration and speech perception.
  • The McGurk effect is a paradigm for studying auditory-visual speech integration.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare auditory-visual speech information integration in older and younger adults.
  • To investigate the relationship between lipreading performance and speech integration in older adults.

Main Methods:

  • Compared three groups: young normal hearing/vision, older normal/near-normal hearing/vision, and young controls with noise-induced hearing loss.
  • Administered lipreading tests and syllable identification tasks with conflicting auditory and visual cues.

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Main Results:

  • Older adults showed comparable syllable-level integration of auditory and visual speech information to younger adults.
  • Older adults and noise-exposed controls favored visual alternatives when integration failed, unlike younger adults who favored auditory alternatives.
  • Older adults exhibited poorer lipreading performance, which was not linked to their integration abilities.

Conclusions:

  • When auditory-visual speech integration is unsuccessful, individuals choose responses from the clearer sensory modality.
  • Older adults' reliance on visual cues during speech perception may reflect compensatory strategies.