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Dear Valeriy and List, I have a rather recent version. The original reading span test
was introduced by Daneman and Carpenter (1980). Baddeley et al.(1985) made a
test based on the technique used by Daneman and Carpenter, and this was further
developed in Sweden by the persons involved in the HEAD Cognitive Hearing
Science group at Linköping University. The current version (Andersson et al.
2001, Hällgren et al. 2001, Rönnberg et al., 1989) is available as a
stand-alone application (executable file) and have been used in several studies
(e.g. Lunner, 2003, Rudner et al, 2008) which showed a relatively strong
correlation between the reading span test and sentence recognition in noise.
Davis (2003) have also made a large scale study where this version of the
reading span test was included. Akeroyd (2008) reviewed twenty studies,
published since 1989, that have measured experimentally the relationship
between speech recognition in noise and some aspect of cognition. Measures of
working memory (especially reading span) were mostly effective, whereas
measures of general ability, such as IQ, were mostly ineffective. If you wish, I can e-mail the executable file to you (~2 MB). Best wishes, Thomas Lunner, professor Cognitive Hearing Science Oticon A/S Research Centre Eriksholm, Snekkersten, Denmark Linnaeus Centre HEAD, The Swedish Institute for Disability
Research, Linköping, Sweden References: Akeroyd MA (2008). Are individual differences in speech
reception related to individual differences in cognitive ability? A survey of
twenty experimental studies with normal and hearing-impaired adults.
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Cognitive Correlates of Visual Speech Understanding in Hearing-Impaired
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19, 450-466. Davis, A. (2003). Population study of the ability to benefit
from amplification and the provision of a hearing aid in 55-74-year-old
first-time hearing aid users. International Journal of Audiology, 42 (Suppl 2),
S39-S52. Hällgren, M., Larsby, B., Lyxell, B. & Arlinger, S. (2001).
Evaluation of a cognitive test battery in young and elderly normal-hearing and
hearing-impaired persons. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 12(7),
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Rönnberg, J. (2008). Phonological mismatch and explicit cognitive processing in
a sample of 102 hearing aid users. International Journal of Audiology 47
(Suppl. 2), S91-S98. From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception
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