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SUBMITTER: Eckert MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2504602 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Eckert Mark A MA Walczak Adam A Ahlstrom Jayne J Denslow Stewart S Horwitz Amy A Dubno Judy R JR
Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO 20080215 2
Speech recognition can be difficult and effortful for older adults, even for those with normal hearing. Declining frontal lobe cognitive control has been hypothesized to cause age-related speech recognition problems. This study examined age-related changes in frontal lobe function for 15 clinically normal hearing adults (21-75 years) when they performed a word recognition task that was made challenging by decreasing word intelligibility. Although there were no age-related changes in word recogni ...[more]