Author(s): Gagné N; Greenlaw KM; Coffey EBJ;

Hearing-in-noise (HIN) is a challenging task that is essential to human functioning in social, vocational, and educational contexts. Successful speech perception in noisy settings is thought to rely in part on the brain's ability to enhance neural representations of attended speech. In everyday HIN situations, important features of speech (i.e., pitch ...

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Author(s): Lo CY; Zendel BR; Baskent D; Boyle C; Coffey E; Gagne N; Habibi A; Harding E; Keijzer M; Kreutz G; Maat B; Schurig E; Sharma M; Dang C; Gilmore S; Henshaw H; McKay CM; Good A; Russo FA;

Background: Unaddressed age-related hearing loss is highly prevalent among older adults, typified by negative consequences for speech-in-noise perception and psychosocial wellbeing. There is promising evidence that group singing may enhance speech-in-noise perception and psychosocial wellbeing. H ...

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Author(s): Downey R; Gagné N; Mohanathas N; Campos JL; Pichora-Fuller KM; Bherer L; Lussier M; Phillips NA; Wittich W; St-Onge N; Gagné JP; Li K;

Background: Hearing loss predicts cognitive decline and falls risk. It has been argued that degraded hearing makes listening effortful, causing competition for higher-level cognitive resources needed for secondary cognitive or motor tasks. Therefore, executive function training has the potential ...

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