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Presbycusis and phonemic regression

J Tyberghein1

  • 1Department ENT, Head and Neck Surgery, UZ Leuven, Belgium.

Acta Oto-Rhino-Laryngologica Belgica
|January 1, 1996
PubMed
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Older adults with hearing loss experience reduced speech intelligibility in noise, unlike younger individuals. This age-related decline in speech understanding may stem from cochlear and neural pathologies.

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Area of Science:

  • Audiology
  • Neuroscience
  • Gerontology

Background:

  • Speech intelligibility is crucial for communication, especially in older adults.
  • Age-related hearing loss, or presbycusis, can significantly impact speech perception.
  • Understanding the factors affecting speech recognition in noise is vital for audiological rehabilitation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare tonal and speech audiograms with Jerger's Synthetic Sentence Identification.
  • To investigate the effect of age and hearing loss on speech intelligibility in quiet versus noisy environments.
  • To explore the relationship between pure-tone audiometry (PTA) results and speech perception abilities.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of 1042 tonal and speech audiograms.
  • Utilized Jerger's Synthetic Sentence Identification (SSI) for speech audiometry.

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  • Compared speech intelligibility in silent and noisy conditions across different age groups and hearing loss profiles.

    • Main Results:

    • Older subjects (>50 years) with normal or high-frequency hearing loss showed significantly better speech intelligibility in quiet than in noise.
    • Speech intelligibility in noise for older adults was correlated with the Speech Reception Threshold (SRT).
    • Younger individuals exhibited a smaller difference in speech intelligibility between silent and noisy environments.
    • Subjects with a horizontal PTA (20-60 dB HL) demonstrated similar speech intelligibility in both environments, irrespective of age.

    Conclusions:

    • Phonemic regression in the elderly is likely influenced by pathologies in the organ of Corti and the first cochlear neuron.
    • Age-related differences in speech-in-noise perception are significant and linked to specific audiological profiles.
    • The findings highlight the complex interplay between hearing loss, age, and the ability to understand speech in challenging acoustic conditions.