Modulation of Cognitive and Emotional Control in Age-Related Mild-to-Moderate Hearing Loss

Progressive hearing loss is a common phenomenon in healthy ageing and may affect the perception of emotions expressed in speech. Elderly with mild to moderate hearing loss often rate emotional expressions as less emotional and display reduced activity in emotion-sensitive brain areas (e.g., amygdala). However, it is not clear how hearing loss affects cognitive and emotional control mechanisms engaged in multimodal speech processing. In previous...