| 청년, 중년, 노년군의 시간적 청각정보 처리능력 비교:
GIN (Gaps-in-noise)과 시간압축 문장인지도 측정을 중심으로 |
| 박재경1,2, 이재희1 |
1삼성서울병원 이비인후과
2한림국제대학원대학교 청각학과 |
| A Comparison of Auditory Temporal Processing in
Young, Middle-aged, and Older Adults: Measure of GIN
(Gaps-in-noise) and Time-compressed Sentence Recognition |
| Jae-kyeong Park1,2, Jae Hee Lee1 |
1Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul
2Department of Audiology, Hallym University of Graduate Studies, Seoul, Korea |
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Received: June 13, 2015; Revised: August 22, 2015 Accepted: September 24, 2015. Published online: October 31, 2015. |
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| ABSTRACT |
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To determine any age-related declines in auditory temporal processing, this study examined the ability to process
temporal information using measure of gaps-in-noise (GIN) and of 40% time-compressed sentence recognition.
Participants were fifteen young listeners, eleven middle-aged listeners, and twelve elderly listeners, and all had
normal hearing. For the GIN test, both approximate gap detection threshold (msec) and detection performance in
percent correct (%) were measured. For the test of sentence recognition, all the listeners were needed to repeat
target sentences when the time-compressed sentences were presented without or with competing speech (0 dB SNR).
Our results showed that GIN performance of young group was greater than that of middle-aged group, and the
middle-aged group outperformed the elderly group. When the time-compressed sentences were presented with
competing speech, young group exhibited superior performance relative to middle-aged group, and also the
middle-aged group scored better than the elderly group. Overall, the GIN performance was related to the recognition
ability of time-compressed sentences. This supports the previous findings that the ability of auditory temporal
processing begins to decline at middle age. |
| Key Words:
Middle-age, Auditory temporal processing, Temporal resolution, Time compression |
| 중심단어:
중년, 시간정보처리능력, 시간분석력, 시간압축 |
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