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Auditory temporal processing, reading, and phonological awareness among aging adults.

Michal Ronen¹, Adi Lifshitz-Ben-Basat², Riki Taitelbaum-Swead²

¹Department of Psychology, Ariel University, Israel.

Acta Psychologica

|July 10, 2018

Summary

Aging adults show deficits in auditory temporal processing (ATP) and phonological awareness, but surprisingly maintain reading ability. This suggests a link between ATP, phonological awareness, and speech perception difficulties in older adults.

Keywords:

Aging Auditory temporal processing Dyslexia Phonological awareness Reading Speech perception

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Auditory Perception
Developmental Psychology

Background:

Auditory temporal processing (ATP) is linked to speech perception, reading, and phonological awareness.
Aging adults often experience difficulties with speech perception, potentially due to ATP deficits.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if age-related ATP deficits correlate with impaired reading and phonological awareness in aging adults.
To explore the relationship between ATP, speech perception, reading, and phonological awareness across aging adults, dyslexic readers, and young normal readers.

Main Methods:

Compared 38 aging adults, 55 readers with dyslexia, and 42 young normal readers.
Utilized tests for temporal order judgment (TOJ), speech perception, reading accuracy, and phonological awareness.

Main Results:

Aging adults exhibited longer TOJ thresholds than young controls but shorter than dyslexic readers.
Aging adults had lower speech perception accuracy than both comparison groups.
Phonological awareness was poorer in aging adults than young controls but better than dyslexic readers; reading accuracy was similar to young controls.

Conclusions:

This study is the first to report poor phonological awareness in aging adults.
The findings suggest that age-related phonological awareness deficits may not directly impair reading ability but could be linked to speech perception difficulties.
A novel relationship between ATP and phonological awareness in aging adults is identified, warranting further investigation in other populations with ATP deficits.