During hearing, acoustic signals travel up the ascending auditory pathway from the cochlea
to auditory cortex; efferent connections provide descending feedback. In human listeners …

Recent advances in research and clinical practice concerning aging and auditory
communication have been driven by questions about age-related differences in peripheral …

Normal aging is an inevitable race between increasing knowledge and decreasing cognitive
capacity. Crucial to understanding and promoting successful aging is determining which of …

Humans have a remarkable ability to track and understand speech in unfavorable
conditions, such as in background noise, but speech understanding in noise does …

Much of our daily communication occurs in the presence of background noise,
compromising our ability to hear. While understanding speech in noise is a challenge for …

Listening to speech is often demanding because of signal degradations and the presence of
distracting sounds (ie,“noise”). The question how the brain achieves the task of extracting …

Neural slowing is commonly noted in older adults, with consequences for sensory, motor,
and cognitive domains. One of the deleterious effects of neural slowing is impairment of …

Speech-evoked auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) provide insight into the neural
mechanisms underlying speech processing. For this reason, ERPs are of great value to …

Objective: We investigated a neural basis of speech-in-noise perception in older adults.
Hearing loss, the third most common chronic condition in older adults, is most often …

Objective: Clinicians encounter patients who report experiencing hearing difficulty (HD)
even when audiometric thresholds fall within normal limits. When there is no evidence of …