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Distraction by Competing Speech in Young and Older Adult Listeners
Ist Teil von
Psychology and aging, 2002-09, Vol.17 (3), p.453-467
Ort / Verlag
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association
Erscheinungsjahr
2002
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Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In 2 experiments, young and older adults heard target speech presented in quiet or with a competing speaker in the background. The distractor consisted either of meaningful speech or nonmeaningful speech composed of randomly ordered word strings (Experiment 1) or speech in an unfamiliar language (Experiment 2). Tests of recall for the target speech showed that older adults, but not younger adults, were impaired more by meaningful distractors than by nonmeaningful distracters. However, on a surprise recognition test, young adults were more likely than older adults to recognize meaningful distractor items. These results suggest that reduced efficiency in attentional control is an important factor in older adults' difficulty in recalling target speech in the presence of a background of competing speech.