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Mild hearing loss can cause apparent memory failures which increase with age and reduce with IQ

Rabbitt, Patrick·1991·Acta Oto-Laryngologica
DOI 10.3109/00016489109127274
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Rabbit (1968) tested the accuracy with which young adults with excellent hearing could repeat lists of numbers, words or continuous text which they heard over a system which maintained a constant ratio of white noise to speech signal irrespective of signal strength. Noise levels which allowed individual subjects correctly to repeat every word as they heard it (i.e. shadow without errors) nevertheless reduced their ability to remember what they had heard. This appeared to be because increased effort necessary to recognise words through low levels of noise prevented adequate rehearsal or elaborative encoding of material to be remembered. This finding that slight degradation of sensory input had secondary consequences on memory and comprehension of spoken material led to an interpretation of findings that 960 individuals aged from 50 to 82 years, in contrast to young adults, showed markedly better recall for word lists presented visually than for word lists presented auditorally, even when each word in each list was correctly read or repeated aloud. Audiometric screening of a sub-set of this population allowed 30 individuals with mild hearing losses (35 to 50 db) in each of the three age-decades 50 to 59, 60 to 69 and 70 to 79 years to be compared with matched controls who had pure-tone hearing losses of less than 35 db on memory for lists of 30 words presented visually or over a good-quality sound system. In both presentation modes lists were only scored if all words were corre…

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Authors
Rabbitt, P.
Affiliations
University of Manchester (GB)
Corresponding author
Rabbitt, Patrick
Venue
Acta Oto-Laryngologica
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
1991-01
Volume
111
Issue
sup476
Pages
167-176
ISSN
  • 0001-6489 (ISSN-L)
  • 1651-2251
DOI
10.3109/00016489109127274
OpenAlex
W2148974419
Cited by
308
References
18
Citations by year
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FWCI
0.23
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Acta Oto-Laryngologica (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Speech and Hearing › Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Hearing Impairment and Communication
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
Keywords
mild hearing loss, age-related memory decline, auditory memory, word list recall, IQ, processing speed, elaborative encoding, older adults, information processing model
MeSH terms
Aged, Aging, Female, Humans, Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Male, Memory, Memory Disorders, Mental Processes, Middle Aged, Presbycusis

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