Delayed Stream Segregation in Older Adults

In Brief Objective: To determine whether the time course for the buildup of auditory stream segregation differs between younger and older adults. Design: Word recognition thresholds were determined for the first and last keywords in semantically anomalous but syntactically correct sentences (e.g., “A rose could paint a fish”) when the target sentences were masked by speech-spectrum noise, 3-band vocoded speech, 16-band vocoded speech, intact and...