The effects of age on temporal fine structure sensitivity in monaural and binaural conditions

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 715-721

  Moore, Brian C J ^a   Vickers, Deborah A ^b   Mehta, Anahita ^b  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Binaural hearing; Temporal fine structure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGING; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865091114     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14992027.2012.690079     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Bergman M. 1971. Hearing and aging. Audiology, 10, 164-171.
2. de CheveignéA. & Pressnitzer D. 2006. The case of the missing delay lines: Synthetic delays obtained by cross-channel phase interaction. J Acoust Soc Am, 119, 3908-3918.
3. Dubno J.R., Ahlstrom J.B. & Horwitz A.R. 2008. Binaural advantage for younger and older adults with normal hearing. J Speech Lang Hear Res, 51, 539-556.
4. Glasberg B.R. & Moore B.C.J. 1990. Derivation of auditory fi lter shapes from notched-noise data. Hear Res, 47, 103-138.
5. Grantham D.W. 1995. Spatial hearing and related phenomena. In: B.C.J. Moore (ed.) Hearing, New York: Academic, pp. 297-345.
6. Grose J.H. & Mamo S.K. 2010. Processing of temporal fi ne structure as a function of age. Ear Hear, 31, 755-760.
7. Hacker M.J. & Ratcliff R. 1979. A revised table of d ' for M-alternative forced choice. Percept Psychophys, 26, 168-170.
8. Harris K.C., Eckert M.A., Ahlstrom J.B. & Dubno J.R. 2010. Age-related differences in gap detection: Effects of task diffi culty and cognitive ability. Hear Res, 264, 21-29.
9. Hopkins K. & Moore B.C.J. 2007. Moderate cochlear hearing loss leads to a reduced ability to use temporal fi ne structure information. J Acoust Soc Am, 122, 1055-1068.
10. Hopkins K. & Moore B.C.J. 2010a. Development of a fast method for measuring sensitivity to temporal fi ne structure information at low frequencies. Int J Audiol, 49, 940-946.
11. Hopkins K. & Moore B.C.J. 2010b. The importance of temporal fi ne structure information in speech at different spectral regions for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired subjects. J Acoust Soc Am, 127, 1595-1608.
12. Hopkins K. & Moore B.C.J. 2011. The effects of age and cochlear hearing loss on temporal fi ne structure sensitivity, frequency selectivity, and speech reception in noise. J Acoust Soc Am, 130, 334-349.
13. Levitt H. 1971. Transformed up-down methods in psychoacoustics. J Acoust Soc Am, 49, 467-477.
14. Martin J.S. & Jerger J.F. 2005. Some effects of aging on central auditory processing. J Rehabil Res Dev, 42, 25-44.
15. Moore B.C.J. 2012. An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing, 6th ed. Bingley, UK: Emerald.
16. Moore B.C.J. & Glasberg B.R. 2010. The role of temporal fi ne structure in harmonic segregation through mistuning. J Acoust Soc Am, 127, 5-8.
17. Moore B.C.J., Glasberg B.R. & Hopkins K. 2006. Frequency discrimination of complex tones by hearing-impaired subjects: Evidence for loss of ability to use temporal fi ne structure information. Hear Res, 222, 16-27.
18. Moore B.C.J., Glasberg B.R., Stoev M., F ü llgrabe C. & Hopkins K. 2012. The infl uence of age and high-frequency hearing loss on sensitivity to temporal fi ne structure at low frequencies. J Acoust Soc Am, 131, 1003-1006.
19. Moore B.C.J., Hopkins K. & Cuthbertson S.J. 2009. Discrimination of complex tones with unresolved components using temporal fi ne structure information. J Acoust Soc Am, 125, 3214-3222.
20. Moore B.C.J., Huss M., Vickers D.A., Glasberg B.R. & Alc á ntara J.I. 2000. A test for the diagnosis of dead regions in the cochlea. Br J Audiol, 34, 205-224.
21. Moore B.C.J. & Sek A. 2009. Development of a fast method for determining sensitivity to temporal fi ne structure. Int J Audiol, 48, 161-171.
22. Moore G.A. & Moore B.C.J. 2003. Perception of the low pitch of frequencyshifted complexes. J Acoust Soc Am, 113, 977-985.
23. Neher T., Lunner T., Hopkins K. & Moore B.C.J. 2012. Binaural temporal fi ne structure sensitivity, cognitive function, and spatial speech recognition of hearing-impaired listeners. J Acoust Soc Am, 131, 2561-2564.
24. Nilsson R. & Liden G. 1976. Sound localization with phase audiometry. Acta Otolaryngol, 81, 291-299.
25. Pichora-Fuller M.K. & Schneider B.A. 1991. Masking-level differences in the elderly: A comparison of antiphasic and time-delay dichotic conditions. J Speech Hear Res, 34, 1410-1422.
26. Pichora-Fuller M.K. & Schneider B.A. 1992. The effect of interaural delay of the masker on masking-level differences in young and old subjects. J Acoust Soc Am, 91, 2129-2135.
27. Rosenhall U. 1992. Phase audiometry in neuroaudiological practice. Acta Otolaryngol, 112, 429-434.
28. Ross B., Fujioka T., Tremblay K.L. & Picton T.W. 2007. Aging in binaural hearing begins in mid-life: Evidence from cortical auditory-evoked responses to changes in interaural phase. J Neurosci, 27, 11172-11178.
29. Schneider B.A., Pichora-Fuller M.K., Kowalchuk D. & Lamb M. 1994. Gap detection and the precedence effect in young and old adults. J Acoust Soc Am, 95, 980-991.
30. Schouten J.F., Ritsma R.J. & Cardozo B.L. 1962. Pitch of the residue. J Acoust Soc Am, 34, 1418-1424.
31. Strouse A., Ashmead D.H., Ohde R.N. & Grantham D.W. 1998. Temporal processing in the aging auditory system. J Acoust Soc Am, 104, 2385-2399.
32. van Rooij J.C.G.M. & Plomp R. 1990. Auditive and cognitive factors in speech perception by elderly listeners, II: Multivariate analyses. J Acoust Soc Am, 88, 2611-2624.
33. van Rooij J.C.G.M. & Plomp R. 1992. Auditive and cognitive factors in speech perception by elderly listeners, III. Additional data and fi nal discussion. J Acoust Soc Am, 91, 1028-1033.
34. White L.J. & Plack C.J. 2003. Factors affecting the duration effect in pitch perception for unresolved complex tones. J Acoust Soc Am, 114, 3309-3316.