Cognitive spare capacity in older adults with hearing loss

Individual differences in working memory capacity are associated with speech recognition in adverse conditions, reflecting the need to maintain and process speech fragments until lexical access can be achieved. When working memory resources are engaged in unlocking the lexicon, there is less Cogniti...

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Main Authors: Sushmit eMishra, Stefan eStenfelt, Thomas eLunner, Jerker eRönnberg, Mary eRudner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnagi.2014.00096/full