Musical Experience Offsets Age-Related Decline in Understanding Speech-in-Noise: Type of Training Does Not Matter, Working Memory Is the Key

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	Musical Experience Offsets Age-Related Decline in Understanding Speech-in-Noise: Type of Training Does Not Matter, Working Memory Is the Key
	Zhang, Lei 1,2; Fu, Xueying 1; Luo, Dan 1; Xing, Lidongsheng 1,2; Du, Yi 1,2,3
刊名	EAR AND HEARING
	2021-03-01
卷号	42 期号:2 页码:258-270
关键词	Aging Auditory working memory Musical training Speech-in-noise perception
ISSN号	0196-0202
DOI	10.1097/AUD.0000000000000921
通讯作者	Du, Yi(duyi@psych.ac.cn)
英文摘要	Objectives: Speech comprehension under "cocktail party" scenarios deteriorates with age even in the absence of measurable hearing loss. Musical training is suggested to counteract the age-related decline in speech-in-noise (SIN) perception, yet which aspect of musical plasticity contributes to this compensation remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the effects of musical experience and aging on SIN perception ability. We hypothesized a key mediation role of auditory working memory in ameliorating deficient SIN perception in older adults by musical training. Design: Forty-eight older musicians, 29 older nonmusicians, 48 young musicians, and 24 young nonmusicians all with (near) normal peripheral hearing were recruited. The SIN task was recognizing nonsense speech sentences either perceptually colocated or separated with a noise masker (energetic masking) or a two-talker speech masker (informational masking). Auditory working memory was measured by auditory digit span. Path analysis was used to examine the direct and indirect effects of musical expertise and age on SIN perception performance. Results: Older musicians outperformed older nonmusicians in auditory working memory and all SIN conditions (noise separation, noise colocation, speech separation, speech colocation), but such musician advantages were absent in young adults. Path analysis showed that age and musical training had opposite effects on auditory working memory, which played a significant mediation role in SIN perception. In addition, the type of musical training did not differentiate SIN perception regardless of age. Conclusions: These results provide evidence that musical training offsets age-related speech perception deficit at adverse listening conditions by preserving auditory working memory. Our findings highlight auditory working memory in supporting speech perception amid competing noise in older adults, and underline musical training as a means of "cognitive reserve" against declines in speech comprehension and cognition in aging populations.
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[31671172] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[31822024] ; Thousand Talent Program for Young Outstanding Scientists ; Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB32010300]
WOS研究方向	Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology ; Otorhinolaryngology
语种	英语
出版者	LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
WOS记录号	WOS:000639305300002
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/39077]
专题	心理研究所_中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
通讯作者	Du, Yi
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, CAS Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Psychol, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.CAS Ctr Excellence Brain Sci & Intelligence Techn, Shanghai, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Lei,Fu, Xueying,Luo, Dan,et al. Musical Experience Offsets Age-Related Decline in Understanding Speech-in-Noise: Type of Training Does Not Matter, Working Memory Is the Key[J]. EAR AND HEARING,2021,42(2):258-270.
APA	Zhang, Lei,Fu, Xueying,Luo, Dan,Xing, Lidongsheng,&Du, Yi.(2021).Musical Experience Offsets Age-Related Decline in Understanding Speech-in-Noise: Type of Training Does Not Matter, Working Memory Is the Key.EAR AND HEARING,42(2),258-270.
MLA	Zhang, Lei,et al."Musical Experience Offsets Age-Related Decline in Understanding Speech-in-Noise: Type of Training Does Not Matter, Working Memory Is the Key".EAR AND HEARING 42.2(2021):258-270.