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SUBMITTER: Dhamani I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3575018 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dhamani Imran I Leung Johahn J Carlile Simon S Sharma Mridula M
Scientific reports 20130101
The aim of this research was to evaluate the ability to switch attention and selectively attend to relevant information in children (10-15 years) with persistent listening difficulties in noisy environments. A wide battery of clinical tests indicated that children with complaints of listening difficulties had otherwise normal hearing sensitivity and auditory processing skills. Here we show that these children are markedly slower to switch their attention compared to their age-matched peers. The ...[more]