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Syntactic complexity differentially affects auditory sentence comprehension performance for individuals with age-related hearing loss
OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether older adults with hearing loss (HL) experience greater difficulties in auditory sentence comprehension compared to those with typical-hearing (TH) when the linguistic burdens of syntactic complexity were systematically manipulated by varying either the sentenc...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10641445/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37965654 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1264994 |
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author | Shin, Junyoung Noh, Shinhee Park, Jimin Sung, Jee Eun |
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description | OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether older adults with hearing loss (HL) experience greater difficulties in auditory sentence comprehension compared to those with typical-hearing (TH) when the linguistic burdens of syntactic complexity were systematically manipulated by varying either the sentence type (active vs. passive) or sentence length (3- vs. 4-phrases). METHODS: A total of 22 individuals with HL and 24 controls participated in the study, completing sentence comprehension test (SCT), standardized memory assessments, and pure-tone audiometry tests. Generalized linear mixed effects models were employed to compare the effects of sentence type and length on SCT accuracy, while Pearson correlation coefficients were conducted to explore the relationships between SCT accuracy and other factors. Additionally, stepwise regression analyses were employed to identify memory-related predictors of sentence comprehension ability. RESULTS: Older adults with HL exhibited poorer performance on passive sentences than on active sentences compared to controls, while the sentence length was controlled. Greater difficulties on passive sentences were linked to working memory capacity, emerging as the most significant predictor for the comprehension of passive sentences among participants with HL. CONCLUSION: Our findings contribute to the understanding of the linguistic-cognitive deficits linked to age-related hearing loss by demonstrating its detrimental impact on the processing of passive sentences. Cognitively healthy adults with hearing difficulties may face challenges in comprehending syntactically more complex sentences that require higher computational demands, particularly in working memory allocation. |
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spelling | pubmed-106414452023-11-14 Syntactic complexity differentially affects auditory sentence comprehension performance for individuals with age-related hearing loss Shin, Junyoung Noh, Shinhee Park, Jimin Sung, Jee Eun Front Psychol Psychology OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether older adults with hearing loss (HL) experience greater difficulties in auditory sentence comprehension compared to those with typical-hearing (TH) when the linguistic burdens of syntactic complexity were systematically manipulated by varying either the sentence type (active vs. passive) or sentence length (3- vs. 4-phrases). METHODS: A total of 22 individuals with HL and 24 controls participated in the study, completing sentence comprehension test (SCT), standardized memory assessments, and pure-tone audiometry tests. Generalized linear mixed effects models were employed to compare the effects of sentence type and length on SCT accuracy, while Pearson correlation coefficients were conducted to explore the relationships between SCT accuracy and other factors. Additionally, stepwise regression analyses were employed to identify memory-related predictors of sentence comprehension ability. RESULTS: Older adults with HL exhibited poorer performance on passive sentences than on active sentences compared to controls, while the sentence length was controlled. Greater difficulties on passive sentences were linked to working memory capacity, emerging as the most significant predictor for the comprehension of passive sentences among participants with HL. CONCLUSION: Our findings contribute to the understanding of the linguistic-cognitive deficits linked to age-related hearing loss by demonstrating its detrimental impact on the processing of passive sentences. Cognitively healthy adults with hearing difficulties may face challenges in comprehending syntactically more complex sentences that require higher computational demands, particularly in working memory allocation. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10641445/ /pubmed/37965654 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1264994 Text en Copyright © 2023 Shin, Noh, Park and Sung. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Shin, Junyoung Noh, Shinhee Park, Jimin Sung, Jee Eun Syntactic complexity differentially affects auditory sentence comprehension performance for individuals with age-related hearing loss |
title | Syntactic complexity differentially affects auditory sentence comprehension performance for individuals with age-related hearing loss |
title_full | Syntactic complexity differentially affects auditory sentence comprehension performance for individuals with age-related hearing loss |
title_fullStr | Syntactic complexity differentially affects auditory sentence comprehension performance for individuals with age-related hearing loss |
title_full_unstemmed | Syntactic complexity differentially affects auditory sentence comprehension performance for individuals with age-related hearing loss |
title_short | Syntactic complexity differentially affects auditory sentence comprehension performance for individuals with age-related hearing loss |
title_sort | syntactic complexity differentially affects auditory sentence comprehension performance for individuals with age-related hearing loss |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10641445/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37965654 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1264994 |
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