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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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2009/2010 DRF Centurion Clinical Research Award
The Neurodiversity Lab is this year’s recepient of the Deafness Research Foundation Centurion Clinical Research Award to study the plasticity of neural systems that process orthography and phonology in older adults.