Spoken Language Comprehension in Older Adults: Interactions between Sensory and Cognitive Change in Normal Aging Export

@article{citeulike:5386639, abstract = {Adult aging is accompanied by changes in cognitive factors, such as a general slowing in perceptual and cognitive operations, a limitation in working memory capacity, and reduced efficiency of executive function in dividing attention. This article considers how these factors join with changes in hearing ability to affect how well older adults are able to comprehend speech and encode that understanding in memory for later use. Factors receiving special attention are negative effects of rapid speech rates and speech heard in background noise. Also examined are positive effects of linguistic context and effective use of speech prosody in speech comprehension and recall in older adults.}, author = {Wingfield, Arthur and Tun, Patricia A.}, citeulike-article-id = {5386639}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-2001-15632}, journal = {Seminars in Hearing}, keywords = {cognitive-effects, hearing, speech}, pages = {287--302}, posted-at = {2009-08-06 22:44:05}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Thieme Medical Publishers}, title = {Spoken Language Comprehension in Older Adults: Interactions between Sensory and Cognitive Change in Normal Aging}, url = {http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-2001-15632}, volume = {22} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5386639 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5386639 N2 - Adult aging is accompanied by changes in cognitive factors, such as a general slowing in perceptual and cognitive operations, a limitation in working memory capacity, and reduced efficiency of executive function in dividing attention. This article considers how these factors join with changes in hearing ability to affect how well older adults are able to comprehend speech and encode that understanding in memory for later use. Factors receiving special attention are negative effects of rapid speech rates and speech heard in background noise. Also examined are positive effects of linguistic context and effective use of speech prosody in speech comprehension and recall in older adults. JF - Seminars in Hearing EP - 302 TI - Spoken Language Comprehension in Older Adults: Interactions between Sensory and Cognitive Change in Normal Aging PB - Thieme Medical Publishers VL - 22 SP - 287 KW - cognitive-effects KW - hearing KW - speech AU - Wingfield, Arthur AU - Tun, Patricia UR - http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-2001-15632 ER -