Sequential Auditory Scene Analysis Is Preserved in Normal Aging Adults

Normal aging is accompanied by speech perception difficulties, especially in adverse listening situations such as a cocktail party. To assess whether such difficulties might be related to impairments in sequential auditory scene analysis, event-related brain potentials were recorded from normal-hearing young, middle-aged, and older adults during presentation of low (A) tones, high (B) tones, and silences (—) in repeating 3 tone triplets (ABA—)....