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Karen Helfer

This presentation examines why older adults struggle to follow speech amid competing conversations, pointing to cognitive factors that matter even when hearing loss alone does not explain the difficulty. I’m Karen Helfer from the University of Massachusetts and today I’m going to be talking about aging and how aging affects...

I think one continuing question, and one that we’ve had for a long time is, “Why do older people have difficulty understanding speech?” What exactly changes with age? Is it hearing loss? Is it attenuation from peripheral hearing loss? Is it something else going on in the cochlea? Is it...