Hearing and dementia: from ears to brain

JCS Johnson, CR Marshall, RS Weil, DE Bamiou… - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The association between hearing impairment and dementia has emerged as a major public
health challenge, with significant opportunities for earlier diagnosis, treatment and …

Synchronisation of neural oscillations and cross-modal influences

AKR Bauer, S Debener, AC Nobre - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2020 - cell.com
At any given moment, we receive multiple signals from our different senses. Prior research
has shown that signals in one sensory modality can influence neural activity and …

Synaptopathy in the aging cochlea: Characterizing early-neural deficits in auditory temporal envelope processing

A Parthasarathy, SG Kujawa - Journal of Neuroscience, 2018 - Soc Neuroscience
Aging listeners, even in the absence of overt hearing loss measured as changes in hearing
thresholds, often experience impairments processing temporally complex sounds such as …

Alpha oscillations in the human brain implement distractor suppression independent of target selection

M Wöstmann, M Alavash, J Obleser - Journal of Neuroscience, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
In principle, selective attention is the net result of target selection and distractor suppression.
The way in which both mechanisms are implemented neurally has remained contested …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid encoding of musical tones discovered in whole-brain connectivity

L Bonetti, E Brattico, F Carlomagno, G Donati, J Cabral… - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
Information encoding has received a wide neuroscientific attention, but the underlying rapid
spatiotemporal brain dynamics remain largely unknown. Here, we investigated the rapid …

Evidence for enhanced neural tracking of the speech envelope underlying age-related speech-in-noise difficulties

L Decruy, J Vanthornhout… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
When we grow older, understanding speech in noise becomes more challenging. Research
has demonstrated the role of auditory temporal and cognitive deficits in these age-related …

Target enhancement or distractor suppression? Functionally distinct alpha oscillations form the basis of attention

D Schneider, SK Herbst, LI Klatt… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in attention research have been propelled by the debate on target
enhancement versus distractor suppression. A predominant neural correlate of attention is …

“Walking” through the sensory, cognitive, and temporal degradations of healthy aging

N Paraskevoudi, F Balcı… - Annals of the New York …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
As we age, there is a wide range of changes in motor, sensory, cognitive, and temporal
processing due to alterations in the functioning of the central nervous and musculoskeletal …

Hearing loss and brain plasticity: the hyperactivity phenomenon

B Herrmann, BE Butler - Brain Structure and Function, 2021 - Springer
Many aging adults experience some form of hearing problems that may arise from auditory
peripheral damage. However, it has been increasingly acknowledged that hearing loss is …

Dopamine dysregulation in Parkinson's disease flattens the pleasurable urge to move to musical rhythms

V Pando‐Naude, TE Matthews… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The pleasurable urge to move to music (PLUMM) activates motor and reward areas of the
brain and is thought to be driven by predictive processes. Dopamine in motor and limbic …