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Speech recognition and temporal processing in middle-aged women.

Karen S Helfer1, Megan Vargo

  • 1University of Massachusetts, Department of Communication Disorders, 358 N. Pleasant St., Amherst, MA 01003, USA. khelfer@comdis.umass.edu

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Middle-aged women with normal hearing can struggle with speech understanding in noisy environments. Temporal processing ability, not just pure-tone thresholds, significantly impacts listening in complex situations.

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Area of Science:

  • Audiology
  • Speech perception research
  • Psychoacoustics

Background:

  • Hearing ability can decline with age, impacting communication.
  • Assessing speech understanding in complex auditory environments is crucial.
  • Temporal processing is a key factor in auditory perception.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate speech understanding and temporal processing in middle-aged women with normal hearing.
  • To compare auditory performance between younger and middle-aged women.
  • To explore the relationship between hearing thresholds, temporal processing, and speech perception.

Main Methods:

  • Compared speech understanding and temporal resolution (Gaps-In-Noise test) in younger and middle-aged women.
  • Measured speech perception in noise with varying masker types and spatial separation.
  • Utilized the Speech, Spatial, and Qualities of Hearing Scale for self-assessment.

Main Results:

  • Middle-aged women performed significantly worse than younger women with spatially coincident speech maskers.
  • Speech understanding in competing speech was strongly correlated with temporal processing ability (GIN test scores).
  • Performance with steady-state noise was linked to high-frequency pure-tone thresholds.

Conclusions:

  • Middle-aged women with normal pure-tone thresholds may experience difficulties in complex listening environments.
  • Temporal processing ability is a significant predictor of speech understanding in certain challenging auditory conditions.
  • Age-related changes in auditory processing, beyond pure-tone loss, affect speech perception.