title: Influence of depressive symptoms on speech perception in adverse listening conditions.
abstract: It is widely acknowledged that individuals with elevated depressive symptoms exhibit deficits in inter-personal communication. Research has primarily focused on speech production in individuals with elevated depressive symptoms. Little is known about speech perception in individuals with elevated depressive symptoms, especially in challenging listening conditions. Here, we examined speech perception in young adults with low- or high-depressive (HD) symptoms in the presence of a range of maskers. Maskers were selected to reflect various levels of informational masking (IM), which refers to cognitive interference due to signal and masker similarity, and energetic masking (EM), which refers to peripheral interference due to signal degradation by the masker. Speech intelligibility data revealed that individuals with HD symptoms did not differ from those with low-depressive symptoms during EM, but they exhibited a selective deficit during IM. Since IM is a common occurrence in real-world social settings, this listening deficit may exacerbate communicative difficulties.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders , The University of Texas at Austin , Austin , TX , USA.
authors.forename: Bharath
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chandrasekaran
authors.forename: Kristin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Van Engen
authors.forename: Zilong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Christopher G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Beevers
authors.forename: W Todd
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Maddox
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D013067:Speech Perception; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: CES-D; Communication; Depression; Informational masking; Speech perception
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