Functional Brain Differences Predict Challenging Auditory Speech Comprehension in Older Adults

abstract: Older adults often experience communication difficulties, including poorer comprehension of auditory speech when it contains complex sentence structures or occurs in noisy environments. Previous work has linked cognitive abilities and the engagement of domain-general cognitive resources, s...

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Other Authors: Fitzhugh, Megan (Author)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.53803