Epidemiological studies have linked age-related hearing loss (ARHL) with an increased risk
of neurocognitive decline. Difficulties in speech perception with subsequent changes in …

Purpose The possible relationship between audiometric hearing thresholds and cognitive
performance on language tests was analyzed in a cross-sectional cohort of older adults …

Age-related hearing loss affects the ability to hear high frequencies and therefore leads to
difficulties in understanding speech, particularly under adverse listening conditions. This …

Background Age‐related hearing loss (ARHL) is highly prevalent in older adults, and more
than two‐thirds above age of 70 years suffer from ARHL. Recent studies have established a …

Introduction: Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) may affect working memory (WM), which
impacts problem-solving, decision-making, language comprehension, and learning. Limited …

Clustering and switching strategies during phonemic and semantic verbal fluency tasks as
defined by Troyer et al.(1997), Abwender et al.(2001), and Lanting et al.(2009) were …

The recall of auditorily presented sequences of digits in reverse order (also known as the
Backward Digit Span, BDS) is considered to reflect a person's information storage and …

Patients with age-related hearing loss face hearing difficulties in daily life. The causes of age-
related hearing loss are complex and include changes in peripheral hearing, central …

Evidence from epidemiological, laboratory and clinical research suggests a link between
age-related auditory declines and domain-general cognitive declines. Nevertheless, few …

Qualitative aspects of verbal fluency may be more useful in discerning the precise cause of
any quantitative deficits in phonetic or category fluency, especially in the case of mild …