Word Recognition in Continuous and Interrupted Broadband Noise by Young Normal-Hearing, Older Normal-Hearing, and Presbyacusic Listeners

Abstract

Group effects observed in the interrupted noise would imply that the two older groups of listeners had an auditory temporal deficit relative to the YNH listeners. The paradigm reveals the patency of the temporal processes that are responsible for the perceptual advantage (i.e., a release from masking) a listener has in interrupted competing stimulus.