Does cognitive function predict frequency compressed speech recognition in listeners with normal hearing and normal cognition

TL;DR: A meta-analysis revealed that, for young listeners with audiometrically normal hearing, individual variations in WMC are estimated to account for, on average, less than 2% of the variance in SiN identification scores.

TL;DR: In NH adults of middle age or older, both TRT and Rspan were associated with SRTs in speech maskers, whereas TRT better predicted speech recognition in fluctuating nonspeech maskers.

TL;DR: Results support a top-down model for successful adaptation to, and recognition of, accented speech; they add to recent theories that allocate a prominent role for executive function to effective speech comprehension in adverse listening conditions.

TL;DR: A framework is advanced in which factors that influence individual differences in speech recognition can be divided into extrinsic factors that affect the representation of the frequency-lowered speech at the auditory periphery, including the specific technique and the settings chosen for it, and intrinsic factors that contribute to an individual's ability to learn and benefit from this signal.

TL;DR: This chapter demonstrates the functional importance of dopamine to working memory function in several ways and demonstrates that a network of brain regions, including the prefrontal cortex, is critical for the active maintenance of internal representations.

TL;DR: The reading span, the number of final words recalled, varied from two to five for 20 college students and was correlated with three reading comprehension measures, including verbal SAT and tests involving fact retrieval and pronominal reference.

TL;DR: This article showed that individual differences in working memory capacity are reflected in performance on antisaccade, Stroop, and dichotic listening tasks, and that WM capacity, or executive attention, is most important under conditions in which interference leads to retrieval of response tendencies that conflict with the current task.