Subject: Re: Working memory (Reading Span) & Speech in noise From: "Oberfeld-Twistel, Daniel" <oberfeld@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 08:44:06 +0000 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Dear Christian, we recently tested a group of young normal-hearing participants in a "cocktail party listening" task with two spatially separated interfering speakers (http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.1876.9448 or http://www.staff.uni-mainz.de/oberfeld/downloads/oberfeld_kloeckner_DAGA2015_549.pdf ). The speech identification performance was significantly correlated with an intensity discrimination task under backward masking, indexing auditory selective attention (e.g. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0099745 ). Binaural TFS sensitivity also explained a significant portion of the variance. However, there was no sign. relation with the reading-span score. The data collection for a group of listeners aged 30-60 years will be completed end of April, will keep you updated... Best Daniel Privatdozent Dr. Daniel Oberfeld-Twistel Johannes Gutenberg - Universitaet Mainz Department of Psychology Experimental Psychology Wallstrasse 3 55122 Mainz Germany Phone ++49 (0) 6131 39 39274 Fax ++49 (0) 6131 39 39268 http://www.staff.uni-mainz.de/oberfeld/ https://www.facebook.com/WahrnehmungUndPsychophysikUniMainz > -----Original Message----- > From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception > [mailto:AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Christian Füllgrabe > Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 3:26 PM > To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx > Subject: Working memory (Reading Span) & Speech in noise > > Dear List, > > > > There is a growing body of evidence that working memory capacity is > positively associated with speech-in-noise perception in listeners with hearing > loss and when spanning a wide age range. > > > > In a recent study (Fullgrabe, Moore, and Stone, 2015), we found a significant > correlation between consonant-in-noise or speech-in-speech identification and > Reading-Span scores in an audiometrically normal-hearing group composed of > young and older listeners. However, this correlation was no longer significant > when the effect of age was partialled out or when only the older (60-79 years) > listeners were entered into the correlational analysis. A review of the recent > literature reveals that the results of those studies investigating this link in > normal-hearing listeners (with the effect of age controlled for and using the > Reading-Span test) are mixed (see Zekveld et al., 2011; Besser et al., 2012; Ellis > and Munro, 2013; Kilman et al., 2014; Moradi et al., 2014; Zekveld et al., 2014; > Stenback et al., 2015). > > > > Can anyone please point me to other publications on the topic of speech-in- > noise perception and working memory capacity (as measured by the Reading- > Span test) in young normal-hearing listeners I might have overlooked, or share > his/her opinion, experience, unpublished data? > > > > Many thanks in advance for any pointers. > > > > Christian (christian@xxxxxxxx) > > > > > > Christian Fullgrabe > > Senior Investigator Scientist > > MRC Institute of Hearing Research > > Nottingham NG7 2RD > > UK > > Email: christian@xxxxxxxx > > Phone: 00 44 (0)115 922 34 31 > > > > > > > > > This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and > may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in > error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. > > Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message > or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this > email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. > > This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment > may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, > you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the > University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.