Comprehension of Speeded Discourse by Younger and Older Listeners

REFERENCES

• Arbogast , T. L. , Mason , C. R. , & Kidd , G. ( 2002 ). The effect of spatial separation on informational and energetic masking of speech . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 112 , 2086 – 2098 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bilger , R. C. , Nuetzel , M. J. , Rabinowitz , W. M. , & Rzeczkowski , C. ( 1984 ). Standardization of a test of speech perception in noise . Journal of Speech and Hearing Research , 27 , 32 – 48 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Brown , J. I. ( 1984 ). Efficient reading ( , 6th ed. ). Lexington , MA : D. C. Heath and Company .
   Google Scholar
• Brown , J. I. , Bennett , J. M. , & Hanna , G. ( 1981 ). Nelson-Denny reading test . Chicago : Riverside .
   Google Scholar
• Brungart , D. S. (2001). Informational and energetic masking effects in the perception of two simultaneous talkers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 109, 1101–1109.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brungart , D. S. & Simpson , B. D. ( 2002 ). The effects of spatial separation in distance on the informational and energetic masking of a nearby speech signal . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 112 , 664 – 676 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Craik , F. I. M. & Byrd , M. ( 1982 ). Aging and cognitive deficits: The role of attentional resources . In F. I. M. Craik & S. Trehub (Eds.), Aging and cognitive processes (pp. 191 – 211 ). Hillsdale , NJ : Erlbaum .
   Google Scholar
• Cerella , J. ( 1990 ). Aging and information-processing rate . In J. E. Birren and K. W. Schaie (Eds.), Handbook of the psychology of aging ( , 3rd ed. , pp. 201 – 221 ). San Diego , CA : Academic Press .
   Google Scholar
• Cohen , J. ( 1988 ). Statistical power analysis for the behavioural sciences ( , 2nd ed. ). Hillsdale , NJ : Erlbaum .
   Google Scholar
• Daneman , M. , & Carpenter , P. A. ( 1980 ). Individual differences in working memory and reading . Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior , 19 , 450 – 466 .
   Google Scholar
• Dubno , J. R. , Dirks , D. D. , & Morgan , D. E. ( 1984 ). Effects of age and mild hearing-loss on speech recognition in noise . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 76 , 87 – 96 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Duquesnoy , A. J. ( 1983 ). Effect of a single interfering noise or speech source upon the binaural sentence intelligibility of aged persons . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 74 , 739 – 743 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Durlach , N. I. , Mason , C. R. , Shinn-Cunningham , B. G. , Arbogast , T. L. , Colburn , H. S. , & Kidd , G. Jr. ( 2003 ). Informational masking: Counteracting the effects of stimulus uncertainty by decreasing target-masker similarity . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 114 , 368 – 379 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fitzgibbons , P. J. & Gordon-Salant , S. ( 1996 ). Auditory temporal processing in elderly listeners . Journal of the American Academy of Audiology , 7 , 183 – 189 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Freyman , R. L. , Balakrishnan , U. , & Helfer , K. S. ( 2001 ). Spatial release from informational masking in speech recognition . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 109 ( 5 Pt. 1 ), 2112 – 2122 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Freyman , R. L. , Helfer , K. S. , McCall , D. D. , & Clifton , R. K. ( 1999 ). The role of perceived spatial separation in the unmasking of speech . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 106 , 3578 – 3588 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gordon-Salant , S. & Fitzgibbons , P. J. ( 1993 ). Temporal factors and speech recognition performance in young and elderly listeners . Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research , 36 , 1276 – 1285 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gordon-Salant , S. & Fitzgibbons , P. J. ( 1999 ). Profile of audiotry temporal processing in older adults . Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research , 42 , 300 – 311 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gordon-Salant , S. & Fitzgibbons , P. J. ( 2001 ). Sources of age-related recognition difficulty for time-compressed speech . Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research , 44 , 709 – 719 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hasher , L. & Zacks , R. T. ( 1988 ). Working memory, comprehension, and aging: A review and a new view . In G. H. Bower (Ed.), The Psychology of learning and motivation (Vol. 22 , pp. 193 – 225 ). San Diego , CA : Academic Press .
   Google Scholar
• Hasher , L. , Zacks , R. T. , & May , C. P. (1999). Inhibitory control, circadian arousal, and age. In D. Gopher & A. Koriat (Eds.), Attention and Performance XVII: Cognitive regulation of performance: Interaction of theory and application (pp. 653–675). Cambridge , MA : The MIT Press.
   Google Scholar
• Heinrich , A. , Schneider , B. A. , & Craik , F. I. M. ( 2007 ). Investigating the influence of continuous babble on auditory short-term memory performance . The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , 61 , 735 – 751 .
   Google Scholar
• Humes , L. E. ( 1996 ). Speech understanding in the elderly . Journal of the American Academy of Audiology , 7 , 161 – 167 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Li , L. , Daneman , M. , Qi , J. G. , & Schneider , B. A. ( 2004 ). Does the information content of an irrelevant source differentially affect spoken word recognition in younger and older adults? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance , 30 , 1077 – 1091 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McCoy , S. L. , Tun , P. A. , Cox , L. C. , Colangelo , M. , Stewart , R. A. , & Wingfield , A. ( 2005 ). Hearing loss and perceptual effort: Downstream effects on older adults' memory for speech . The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , 58A , 22 – 33 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Miller , J. L. , Grosjean , P. , & Lomanto , C. ( 1984 ). Articulation rate and its variability in spontaneous speech: A reanalysis and some implications . Phonetica , 41 , 216 – 225 .
   Google Scholar
• Miller , L. M. S. , Stine-Morrow , E. A. L. , Kirkorian , H. , & Conroy , M. ( 2004 ). Age differences in knowledge-driven reading . Journal of Educational Psychology , 96 , 811 – 821 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Murphy , D. R. , Craik , F. I. M. , Li , K. Z. H. , & Schneider , B. A. ( 2000 ). Comparing the effects of aging and background noise on short-term memory performance . Psychology and Aging , 15 , 323 – 334 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Murphy , D. R. , Daneman , M. , & Schneider , B. A. ( 2006 ). Why do older adults have difficulty following conversations? Psychology & Aging , 21 , 49 – 61 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pichora-Fuller , M. K. , Schneider , B. A. , & Daneman , M. ( 1995 ). How young and old adults listen to and remember speech in noise . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 97 , 593 – 608 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rabbitt , P. M. A. ( 1968 ). Channel-capacity, intelligibility and immediate memory . Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , 20 , 241 – 248 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rabbitt , P. M. A. ( 1991 ). Mild hearing-loss can cause apparent memory failures which increase with age and reduce with IQ . Acta Otolaryngology , 111 , 167 – 176 .
   Google Scholar
• Rybash , J. M. , Roodin , P. B. , & Hoyer , W. J. ( 1995 ). Adult development and aging . New-York : McGraw-Hill .
   Google Scholar
• Salthouse , T. A. ( 1985 ). A theory of cognitive aging . Amsterdam : North Holland .
   Google Scholar
• Salthouse , T. A. ( 1996 ). The processing-speed theory of adult age differences in cognition . Psychological Review , 103 , 403 – 428 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schmitt , J. F. ( 1983 ). The effects of time compression and time expansion on passage comprehension by elderly listeners . Journal of Speech and Hearing Research , 26 , 373 – 377 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Schmitt , J. F. & Carroll , M. R. ( 1985 ). Older listeners' ability to comprehend speaker-generated rate alteration of passages . Journal of Speech and Hearing Research , 28 , 309 – 312 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Schneider , B. A. , Daneman , M. , & Murphy , D. R. (2005). Speech comprehension difficulties in older adults: Cognitive slowing or age-related changes in hearing? Psychology & Aging , 20, 261–271.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schneider , B. A. , Daneman , M. , Murphy , D. R. , & Kwong-See , S. ( 2000 ). Listening to discourse in distracting settings: The effects of aging . Psychology & Aging , 15 , 110 – 125 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schneider , B. A. , Daneman , M. , & Pichora-Fuller , M. K. ( 2002 ). Listening in aging adults: From discourse comprehension to psychoacoustics . Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology , 56 , 139 – 152 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schneider , B. A. , Li , L. , & Daneman , M. ( 2007 ). How competing speech interferes with speech comprehension in everyday listening situations . Journal of the American Academy of Audiology , 18 , 559 – 572 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stine , E. A. L. , Wingfield , A. , & Myers , S. D. ( 1990 ). Age differences in processing information from television news: The effects of bisensory augmentation . Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences , 45 , P1 – P8 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Tun , P. A. ( 1998 ). Fast noisy speech: Age differences in processing rapid speech with background noise . Psychology and Aging , 13 , 424 – 434 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tun , P. A. , Wingfield , A. , Stine , E. A. A. , & Mecsas , C. ( 1992 ). Rapid speech processing and divided attention: processing rate versus processing resources as an explanation of age effects . Psychology and Aging , 7 , 546 – 550 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vaughan , N. E. & Letowski , T. ( 1997 ). Effects of age, speechrate, and type of test on temporal auditory processing . Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research , 40 , 1192 – 1200 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wingfield , A. ( 1996 ). Cognitive factors in auditory performance: Context, speed of processing, and constraints of memory . Journal of the American Academy of Audiology , 7 , 175 – 182 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Wingfield , A. , Poon , L. W. , Lombardi , L. , & Lowe , D. ( 1985 ). Speed of processing in normal aging: Effects of speech rate, linguistic structure, and processing time . Journal of Gerontology , 40 , 579 – 585 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar