Attention, memory, and auditory processing in 10- to 15-year-old children with listening difficulties.
J Speech Lang Hear Res
; 57(6): 2308-21, 2014 Dec.
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
The aim of this study was to examine attention, memory, and auditory processing in children with reported listening difficulty in noise (LDN) despite having clinically normal hearing.METHOD:
Twenty-one children with LDN and 15 children with no listening concerns (controls) participated. The clinically normed auditory processing tests included the Frequency/Pitch Pattern Test (FPT; Musiek, 2002), the Dichotic Digits Test (Musiek, 1983), the Listening in Spatialized Noise-Sentences (LiSN-S) test (Dillon, Cameron, Glyde, Wilson, & Tomlin, 2012), gap detection in noise (Baker, Jayewardene, Sayle, & Saeed, 2008), and masking level difference (MLD; Wilson, Moncrieff, Townsend, & Pillion, 2003). Also included were research-based psychoacoustic tasks, such as auditory stream segregation, localization, sinusoidal amplitude modulation (SAM), and fine structure perception. All were also evaluated on attention and memory test batteries.RESULTS:
The LDN group was significantly slower switching their auditory attention and had poorer inhibitory control. Additionally, the group mean results showed significantly poorer performance on FPT, MLD, 4-Hz SAM, and memory tests. Close inspection of the individual data revealed that only 5 participants (out of 21) in the LDN group showed significantly poor performance on FPT compared with clinical norms. Further testing revealed the frequency discrimination of these 5 children to be significantly impaired.CONCLUSION:
Thus, the LDN group showed deficits in attention switching and inhibitory control, whereas only a subset of these participants demonstrated an additional frequency resolution deficit.
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Psicoacústica
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Atención
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Percepción Auditiva
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Trastornos de la Percepción Auditiva
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Memoria
Tipo de estudio:
Observational_studies
Límite:
Adolescent
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Speech Lang Hear Res
Asunto de la revista:
AUDIOLOGIA
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PATOLOGIA DA FALA E LINGUAGEM
Año:
2014
Tipo del documento:
Article