Effect of age and cognition on childhood speech in noise perception abilities

Audiology and Neurotology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-19

  Talarico, Maria ^a   Abdilla, Geraldine ^a   Aliferis, Martha ^a   Balazic, Irena ^a   Giaprakis, Irene ^a   Stefanakis, Toni ^a   Foenander, Kate ^a   Grayden, David B ^b   Paolini, Antonio G ^a,b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BIONIC EAR INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognition, children; Confusable words; Distinguishable words; Non words; Speech in noise perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 33845684183     PISSN: 14203030     EISSN: 14219700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000096153     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Acton GS, Schroeder DH: Sensory discrimination as related to general intelligence. Intelligence 2001;29:263-271.
2. Banich M: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology, ed 2. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
3. Boothroyd A: Auditory development of the hearing child. Scand Audiol 1997;26:9-16.
4. Deary IJ: Intelligence and auditory discrimination: separating processing speed and fidelity of stimulus representation. Intelligence 1994;18:189-213.
5. Deary IJ: Auditory inspection time and intelligence: what is the direction of causation? Dev Psychol1995;31:237-250.
6. Eimas PD: Distinctive feature codes in the short-term memory of children. J Exp Child Psychol 1975;19:241-251.
7. Eisenberg LS, Shannon RV, Martinez AS, Wygonski J, Boothroyd A: Speech recognition with reduced spectral cues as a function of age. J Acoust Soc Am 2000;107:2704-2710.
8. Elliot LL: Performance of children aged 9 to 17 years on a test of speech intelligibility in noise using sentence material with controlled word predictability. J Acoust Soc Am 1979;66:651-653.
9. Elliot LL, Connors S, Kille E, Levin S, Ball K, Katz D: Children's understanding of monosyllabic nouns in quiet and in noise. J Acoust Soc Am 1979;66:12-21.
10. Fallon M, Trehub SE, Schneider BA: Children's perception of speech in multitalker babble. J Acoust Soc Am 2000;108:3023-3029.
11. Hartley DEH, Wright BA, Hogan SC, Moore DR: Age-related improvements in auditory backward and simultaneous masking in 6- to 10-year-old children. J Speech Lang Hear Res 2000;43:1402-1415.
12. Hnath-Chisolm TE, Laipply E, Boothroyd A: Age-related changes on a children's test of sensory-level speech perception capacity. J Speech Lang Hear Res 1998;41:94-106.
13. Johnson CE: Children's phoneme identification in reverberation and noise. J Speech Lang Hear Res 2000;43:144-157.
14. Levitt H: Transformed up-down methods in psychoacoustics. J Acoust Soc Am 1971;49:467-477.
15. Lindenberger U, Baltes PB: Sensory functioning and intelligence in old age: a strong connection. Psychol Aging 1994;9:339-355.
16. Matlin MW: Cognition, ed 5. South Melbourne, Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2002.
17. Nittrouer S: From ear to cortex: a perspective on what clinicians need to understand about speech perception and language processing. Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch 2002;33:237-252.
18. Palmer S: Development of phonological recoding and literacy acquisition: a four-year cross-sequential study. Br J Dev Psychol 2000;18:533-555.
19. Parker DM, Crawford JR, Stephen E: Auditory inspection time and intelligence: a new spatial localization task. Intelligence 1999;27:131-139.
20. Paus T, Zidjenbos A, Worsley K, Collins DL, Blumenthal J, Giedd JN, Rapoport JL, Evans AC: Structural maturations is neural pathways in children and adolescents: in vivo study. Science 1999;283:1908-1911.
21. Pichora-Fuller MK, Schneider BA, Daneman M: How young and old adults listen to and remember speech in noise. J Acoust Soc Am 1995;97:593-608.
22. Rauschecker JP: Auditory cortical plasticity: a comparison with other sensory systems. Trends in Neurosci 1999;22:74-80.
23. Raz N, Willerman L, Ingmundson P, Hanlon M: Aptitude-related differences in auditory recognition masking. Intelligence 1983;7:71-90.
24. Raz N, Willerman L, Yama M: On sense and senses: intelligence and auditory information processing. Pers Individ Dif 1987;8:201-210.
25. Salamy A, Eggermont J, Elderidge I: Neurodevelopmental Applications in Evoked Auditory Potentials. Boston, Allyn & Bacon, 1994.
26. Treiman R, Broderick V, Tincoff R, Rodriguez K: Children's phonological awareness: confusions between phonemes that differ only in voicing. J Exp Child Psychol 1998;68:3-21.
27. Vuontela V, Steenari MR, Carlson S, Koivisto J, Fjällberg M, Aronen ET: Audiospatial and visuospatial working memory in 6- to 13-year-old school children. Learn Mem 2003;10:74-81.
28. Wechsler D: Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children III Manual - Australian Adaptation. San Antonio, The Psychological Corporation, 1991.