@inproceedings{48b690f626d843748b98fa431f9d337d,
title = "Changes in temporal processing of speech across the adult lifespan",
abstract = "Speech is a rapidly varying signal. Temporal processing generally slows with age and many older adults experience difficulties in understanding speech. This research involved over 250 young, middle-aged and older listeners. Temporal processing abilities were assessed in numerous vowel sequence tasks, and analyses examined several factors that might contribute to performance. Significant factors included age and cognitive function as measured by the WAIS-III, but not hearing status for the audible vowels. In addition, learning effects were assessed by retesting two tasks. All groups significantly improved vowel temporal-order identification to a similar degree, but large differences in performance between groups were still observed.",
keywords = "Aging, Speech perception, Temporal processing",
author = "Diane Kewley-Port and Humes, {Larry E.} and Daniel Fogerty",
note = "Funding Information: The authors would like to thank Tom Busey and Jim Craig for their significant contributions to this project. We also thank Dana Kinney, as well as several graduate research assistants involved with this project. This work was supported, in part, by NIA R01 AG022334 and by NIH-NIDCD Training Grant No. T32-DC00012.",
year = "2010",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010",
publisher = "International Speech Communication Association",
pages = "1237--1240",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010",
}