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Visual System Activity When Listening to Speech: Distracting or Helpful?
Aging is often associated with increased distractibility that may arise from a failure to adequately suppress the processing of irrelevant sensory information. In our recent Cerebral Cortex paper, we show that decreasing word intelligibility was associated with increasing visual cortex activity in younger, middle-aged, and older adults. In addition, age was related visual cortex activity:…
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Society for Neuroscience Press Release: Age-related difficulty recognizing words predicted by brain differences
Findings show speech recognition problems independent of hearing loss Washington, DC May 12, 2009 – Older adults may have difficulty understanding speech because of age-related changes in brain tissue, according to new research in the May 13 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The study shows that older adults with the most difficulty understanding spoken…