Auditory and nonauditory factors affecting speech reception in noise by older listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2362-2375

  George, Erwin L J ^a   Zekveld, Adriana A ^a   Kramer, Sophia E ^a   Goverts, S Theo ^a   Festen, Joost M ^a   Houtgast, Tammo ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDITION; CORRELATION METHODS; MODULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AUDITORY MEASURES; NONAUDITORY PERFORMANCE; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLDS (SRT); TEXT RECEPTION THRESHOLD (TRT);

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MODULATION; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; TIME PERCEPTION; VARIANCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 34147167112     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2642072     Document Type: Article

References (80)

1. Amitay, S., Ahissar, M., and Nelken, I. (2002). "Auditory processing deficits in reading disabled adults," J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. 3, 302-320.
2. ANSI (1997). "American national standard methods for the calculation of the Speech Intelligibility Index," ANSI S3.5-1997, American National Standards Institute, New York.
3. Bacon, S. P., Opie, J. M., and Montoya, D. Y. (1998). "The effects of hearing loss and noise masking on the masking release for speech in temporally complex backgrounds," J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res. 41, 549-563.
4. Baer, T., and Moore, B. C. J. (1993). "Effects of spectral smearing on the intelligibility of sentences in noise," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 94, 1229-1241.
5. Baer, T., and Moore, B. C. J. (1994). "Effects of spectral smearing on the intelligibility of sentences in the presence of interfering speech," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 95, 2277-2280.
6. Bilger, R. C., Nuetzel, J. M., Rabinowitz, W. M., and Rzeczkowski, C. (1984). "Standardization of a test of speech perception in noise," J. Speech Hear. Res. 27, 32-48.
7. Boothroyd, A., and Nittrouer, S. (1988). "Mathematical treatment of context effects in phoneme and word recognition," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 84, 101-114.
8. Boothroyd, A., Mulhearn, B., Gong, J., and Ostroff, J. (1996). "Effects of spectral smearing on phoneme and word recognition," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 100, 1807-1818.
9. Divenyi, P. L., Stark, P. B., and Haupt, K. M. (2005). "Decline of speech understanding and auditory thresholds in the elderly," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118, 1089-1100.
10. Dubno, J. R., Ahlstrom, J. B., and Horwith, A. R. (2000). "Use of context by young and aged adults with normal hearing," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107, 538-546.
11. Dubno, J. R., Horwitz, A. R., and Ahlstrom, J. B. (2002). "Benefit of modulated maskers for speech recognition by younger and older adults with normal hearing," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 111, 2897-2907.
12. Dubno, J. R., Horwitz, A. R., and Ahlstrom, J. B. (2003). "Recovery from prior stimulation: Masking of speech by interrupted noise for younger and older adults with normal-hearing," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 113, 2084-2094.
13. Dubno, J. R., and Schaefer, A. B. (1992). "Comparison of frequency selectivity and consonant recognition among hearing-impaired and masked normal-hearing listeners," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 91, 2110-2121.
14. Duquesnoy, A. J., and Plomp, R. (1980). "Effect of reverberation and noise on the intelligibility of sentences in cases of presbyacusis," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 68, 537-544.
15. Eisenberg, L. S., Dirks, D. D., and Bell, T. S. (1995). "Speech recognition in amplitude-modulated noise of listeners with normal and listeners with impaired hearing," J. Speech Hear. Res. 38, 222-233.
16. Elliott, L. L. (1995). "Verbal auditory closure and the Speech Perception in Noise (SPIN) test," J. Speech Hear. Res. 38, 1363-1376.
17. Festen, J. M. (1993). "Contributions of comodulation masking release and temporal resolution to the speech-reception threshold masked by an interfering voice," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 94, 1295-1300.
18. Fitzgibbons, P. J. (1983). "Temporal gap detection in noise as a function of frequency bandwidth, and level," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 74, 67-72.
19. Fitzgibbons, P. J., and Gordon-Salant, S. (1987). "Temporal gap resolution in listeners with high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 81, 133-137.
20. Festen, J. M., and Plomp, R. (1990). "Effects of fluctuating noise and interfering speech on the speech-reception threshold for impaired and normalhearing," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 88, 1725-1736.
21. Gatehouse, S., Naylor, G., and Elberling, C. (2003). "Benefits from hearing aids in relation to the interaction between the user and the environment," Int. J. Audiol. 42, Suppl. 1: S77-85.
22. George, E. L. J., Festen, J. M., and Houtgast, T. (2006). "Factors affecting masking release for speech in modulated noise for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 2295-2311.
23. Gifford, R. H., and Bacon, S. P. (2005). "Psychophysical estimates of nonlinear cochlear processing in younger and older listeners," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118, 3823-3833.
24. Glasberg, B. R., and Moore, B. C. J. (1989). "Psychoacoustic abilities of subjects with unilateral and bilateral cochlear hearing impairments and their relationship to the ability to understand speech," Scand. Audiol. Suppl. 32, 1-25.
25. Glasberg, B. R., and Moore, B. C. J. (1992). "Effects of envelope fluctuations on gap detection," Hear. Res. 64, 81-92.
26. Glasberg, B. R., Moore, B. C. J., and Bacon, S. P. (1987). "Gap detection and masking in hearing-impaired and normal-hearing subjects," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 81, 1546-1556.
27. Goldstein, E. B. (2002). Sensation and Perception (Wadsworth-Thomson, Pacific Grove, CA).
28. Gordon-Salant, S. (1987). "Age-related differences in speech recognition performance as a function of test format and paradign," Ear Hear. 8, 277-282.
29. Gordon-Salant, S., and Fitzgibbons, P. J. (1997). "Selected cognitive factors and speech recognition performance among young and elderly listeners," J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res. 40, 423-431.
30. Gordon-Salant, S., and Fitzgibbons, P. J. (2004). "Effects of stimulus and noise rate variability on speech perception by younger and older adults," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 115, 1808-1817.
31. Grant, K. W., and Seitz, P. F. (2000). "The recognition of isolated words and words in sentences: Individual variability in the use of sentence context," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107, 1000-1011.
32. Grant, K. W., Walden, B. E., and Seitz, P. F. (1998). "Auditory-visual speech recognition by hearing-impaired subjects: Consonant recognition, sentence recognition, and auditory-visual integration," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 103, 2677-2690.
33. Grose, J. H., Hall, J. W., and Buss, E. (2001). "Gap duration discrimination in listeners with cochlear hearing loss: Effects of gap and masker duration, frequency separation, and mode of presentation," J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. 2, 388-398.
34. Gustafsson, H. A., and Arlinger, S. D. (1993). "Masking of speech by amplitude-modulated noise," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 95, 518-529.
35. Hällgren, M. (2005). "Hearing and cognition in speech comprehension," Doctoral thesis, Linköping University, Sweden.
36. Hilkhuysen, G. L. M., Houtgast, T., and Lyzenga, J. (2005). "Estimating cochlear-filter shapes, temporal-window width and compression from tone-sweep detection in spectral and temporal noise gaps," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 117, 2598-2599.
37. Humes, L. E. (2002). "Factors underlying the speech-recognition performance of elderly hearing-aid wearers," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 112, 1112-1132.
38. Humes, L. E. (2005). "Do 'auditory processing' tests measure auditory processing in the elderly?," Ear Hear. 26, 109-119.
39. International Organization for Standardization (1991). "Acoustics-Standard reference zero for the calibration of pure-tone air conduction audiometers," ISO 389:1991(E). Available from the American National Standards Institute, New York.
40. Ishihara, S. (1989). The Series of Plates Designed as a Test for Colour Deficiency (Kanehara, Tokyo).
41. Jestead, W., Bacon, S. P., and Lehman, J. R. (1982). "Forward masking as a function of frequency, masker level, and signal delay," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 71, 950-962.
42. Kalikow, D. N., Stevens, K. N., and Elliott, L. L. (1977). "Development of a test of speech intelligibility in noise using sentence materials with controlled word predictability," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 61, 1337-1351.
43. Kramer, S. E., Kapteyn, T. S., Festen, J. M., and Tobi, H. (1996). "The relationships between self-reported hearing disability and measures of auditory disability," Audiology 35, 277-287.
44. Levitt, H. (1971). "Transformed up-down methods in psychoacoustics," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 49, 467-477.
45. Ludvigsen, C. (1985). "Relations among some psychoacoustic parameters in normal and cochlearly impaired listeners," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 78, 1271-1280.
46. Lunner, T. (2003). "Cognitive function in relation to hearing aid use," Int. J. Audiol. 42, Suppl. 1: S49-58.
47. Miller, R. G. (1981). Simultaneous Statistical Inference (Springer, New York).
48. Moore, B. C. J., Vickers, D. A., Plack, C. J., and Oxenham, A. J. (1999). "Inter-relationship between different psycho-acoustic measures assumed to be related to the cochlear active mechanism," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 106, 2761-2778.
49. Nabelek, A. K., and Robinson, P. K. (1982). "Monaural and binaural speech perception in reverberation for listeners of various ages," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 71, 1242-1248.
50. Nittrouer, S., and Boothroyd, A. (1990). "Context effects in phoneme and word recognition by young children and older adults," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 87, 2705-2715.
51. Noordhoek, I. M., Houtgast, T., and Festen, J. M. (2001). "Relations between intelligibility of narrow-band speech and auditory functions, both in the 1-kHz frequency region," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, 1197-1212.
52. Nunnally, J. C. (1967). Psychometric Theory (McGraw-Hill, New York).
53. Oxenham, A. J., and Bacon, S. P. (2003). "Cochlear compression: Perceptual measures and implications for normal and impaired hearing," Ear Hear. 24, 352-366.
54. Patterson, R. D., Nimmo-Smith, I., Weber, D. L., and Milroy, R. (1982). "The deterioration of hearing with age: Frequency selectivity, the critical ratio, the audiogram, and speech threshold," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 72, 1788-1803.
55. Peters, R. W., Moore, B. C. J., and Baer, T. (1998). "Speech reception thresholds in noise with and without spectral and temporal dips for hearing-impaired and normally hearing people," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 103, 577-587.
56. Pichora-Fuller, M. K., Schneider, B. A., and Daneman, M. (1995). "How young and old adults listen to and remember speech in noise," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 97, 593-608.
57. Pichora-Fuller, M. K., and Souza, P. E. (2003). "Effects of aging on auditory processing of speech," Int. J. Audiol. 42, 2S11-2S16.
58. Plomp, R. (1978). "Auditory handicap of hearing impairment and the limited benefit of hearing aids," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 63, 533-549.
59. Plomp, R., and Mimpen, A. M. (1979). "Improving the reliability of testing the speech reception threshold for sentences," Audiology 18, 43-52.
60. Rhebergen, K. S., and Versfeld, N. J. (2005). "A Speech Intelligibility Index-based approach to predict the speech reception threshold for sentences in fluctuating noise for normal-hearing listeners," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 117, 2181-2192.
61. Snell, K. B. (1997). "Age-related changes in temporal gap detection," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 101, 2214-2220.
62. Snell, K. B., Mapes, F. M., Hickman, E. D., and Frisina, D. R. (2002). "Word recognition in competing babble and the effects of age, temporal processing, and absolute sensitivity," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 112, 720-727.
63. Snodgrass, J. G., and Kinjo, H. (1998). "On the generality of the perceptual closure effect," J. Exp. Psychol. Learn. Mem. Cogn. 24, 645-658.
64. Sommers, M. S., and Humes, L. E. (1993a). "Auditory filter shapes in normal-hearing, noise-masked normal and elderly listeners," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 93, 2903-2914.
65. Sommers, M. S., and Humes, L. E. (1993b). "Erratum: Auditory filter shapes in normal-hearing, noise-masked normal and elderly listeners [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 93, 2903-2914 (1993)]," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 94, 2449-2450.
66. Souza, P. E., and Turner, C. W. (1994). "Masking of speech in young and elderly listeners with hearing loss," J. Speech Hear. Res. 37, 655-661.
67. Stephens, S. D. G. (1976). "The input for a damaged cochlea - A brief review," Br. J. Audiol. 10, 97-101.
68. Studebaker, G. A., Sherbecoe, R. L., McDaniel, D. M., and Gwaltney, C. A. (1999). "Monosyllabic word recognition at higher-than-normal speech and noise levels," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105, 2431-2444.
69. Summers, V., and Molis, M. R. (2004). "Speech recognition in fluctuating and continuous maskers: Effects of hearing loss and presentation level," J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res. 47, 245-256.
70. Ter Keurs, M., Festen, J. M., and Plomp, R. (1993a). "Effect of spectral envelope smearing on speech reception. II," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 93, 1547-1552.
71. Ter Keurs, M., Festen, J. M., and Plomp, R. (1993b). "Limited resolution of spectral contrast and hearing loss for speech in noise," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 94, 1307-1314.
72. Van Rooij, J. C. G. M., and Plomp, R. (1990). "Auditory and cognitive factors in speech perception by elderly listeners. II. Multivariate analysis," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 88, 2611-2624.
73. Van Rooij, J. C. G. M., and Plomp, R. (1992). "Auditory and cognitive factors in speech perception by elderly listeners. III. Additional data and final discussion," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 91, 1028-1033.
74. Van Rooij, J. C. G. M., Plomp, R., and Orlebeke, J. F. (1989). "Auditory and cognitive factors in speech perception by elderly listeners. I. Development of test battery," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 86, 1294-1309.
75. Van Wijngaarden, S. J., Bronkhorst, A. W., Houtgast, T., and Steeneken, H. J. (2004). "Using the Speech Transmission Index for predicting non-native speech intelligibility," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 115, 1281-1291.
76. Van Wijngaarden, S. J., Steeneken, H. J., and Houtgast, T. (2002). "Quantifying the intelligibility of speech in noise for non-native listeners," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 111, 1906-1916.
77. Versfeld, N. J., Daalder, L., Festen, J. M., and Houtgast, T. (2000). "Method for the selection of sentence materials for efficient measurement of speech reception threshold," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107, 1671-1684.
78. Warren, R. M. (1970). "Perceptual restoration of missing speech sounds," Science 167, 392-393.
79. Watson, C. S., Qiu, W. W., Chamberlain, M. M., and Li, X. (1996). "Auditory and visual speech perception: Confirmation of a modalityindependent source of individual differences in speech recognition," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 100, 1153-1162.
80. Zekveld, A. A., George, E. L. J., Kramer, S. E., Goverts, S. T., and Houtgast, T. (2007). "The development of the Text Reception Threshold test: A visual analogue of the Speech Reception Threshold test," J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res. (to be published).