Listening with age: disentangling peripheral and cortical processing in the aging auditory system. KU Leuven
In daily life most speech communication information has to be captured in non-optimal acoustical environments and in the presence of interfering sound sources. In the auditory system, the complex speech signal needs to be analyzed acoustically and neurally, separated from the noise, and mapped to phonemes and words. This processing is found to be significantly affected by age. The elderly have more difficulties to follow the rapid temporal ...