Association of Tinnitus With Speech Recognition and Executive Functions in Older Adults
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11120/25:43929035 RIV/71226401:_____/25:N0101121
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23312165251389585" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23312165251389585</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23312165251389585" target="_blank" >10.1177/23312165251389585</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Association of Tinnitus With Speech Recognition and Executive Functions in Older Adults
Original language description
Adults with chronic subjective tinnitus often struggle with speech recognition in challenging listening environments. While most research demonstrates deficits in speech recognition among individuals with tinnitus, studies focusing on older adults remain scarce. Besides speech recognition deficits, tinnitus has been linked to diminished cognitive performance, particularly in executive functions, yet its associations with specific cognitive domains in ageing populations are not fully understood. Our previous study of younger adults found that individuals with tinnitus exhibit deficits in speech recognition and interference control. Building on this, we hypothesized that these deficits are also present for older adults. We conducted a cross-sectional study of older adults (aged 60-79), 32 with tinnitus and 31 controls matched for age, gender, education, and approximately matched for hearing loss. Participants underwent audiometric, speech recognition, and cognitive tasks. The tinnitus participants performed more poorly in speech-in-noise and gated speech tasks, whereas no group differences were observed in the other suprathreshold auditory tasks. With regard to cognition, individuals with tinnitus showed reduced interference control, emotional interference, cognitive flexibility, and verbal working memory, correlating with tinnitus distress and loudness. It is concluded that tinnitus-related deficits persist and even worsen with age. Our results suggest that altered central mechanisms contribute to speech recognition difficulties in older adults with tinnitus.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30206 - Otorhinolaryngology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Trends in Hearing
ISSN
2331-2165
e-ISSN
2331-2165
Volume of the periodical
2025
Issue of the periodical within the volume
29
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
1-21
UT code for WoS article
001613833400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105021743217