title: Speech recognition in young and elderly normal-hearing listeners in a closed response test.
abstract: Speech recognition has been measured in a group of elderly (age range 55-70 years) subjects with normal hearing. The results from this group were compared with the results from a young, normal-hearing group (age 19-36 years). The two groups were matched as regards education, occupation and dialect. The test material used was a four-alternative closed-response speech test composed of monosyllabic words. Each word was presented in a carrier sentence and masked by a speech-spectrum shaped modulated background noise. No significant difference was found between the speech recognition in the two groups.
authors.affiliation: Acoustics Laboratory, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Poulsen
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Keidser
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001299:Audiometry; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006309:Hearing / Q000502:physiology*; D006320:Hearing Tests; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013067:Speech Perception