Aging affects neural precision of speech encoding.

@article{Anderson2012AgingAN,
  title={Aging affects neural precision of speech encoding.},
  author={Samira Anderson and Alexandra Parbery-Clark and Travis White-Schwoch and Nina Kraus},
  journal={The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience},
  year={2012},
  volume={32 41},
  pages={
          14156-64
        }
}

• Samira Anderson, Alexandra Parbery-Clark, +1 author Nina Kraus
• Published in
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official…
  2012
• DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2176-12.2012

Older adults frequently report they can hear what is said but cannot understand the meaning, especially in noise. This difficulty may arise from the inability to process rapidly changing elements of speech. Aging is accompanied by a general slowing of neural processing and decreased neural inhibition, both of which likely interfere with temporal processing in auditory and other sensory domains. Age-related reductions in inhibitory neurotransmitter levels and delayed neural recovery can… CONTINUE READING

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