Spectral degradation

Spectral degradation increases age-related silent interval processing deficit in humans.

“This pattern differed from the Dish/Ditch contrast, where reducing spectral resolution exaggerated age effects, but introducing carrier sentences largely left the patterns unchanged.”

Human trialnormal hearing; Dish/Ditch contrastsinewave vocoding2, 4, and 8 channels

Spectral degradation and carrier sentences increase age-related temporal processing deficits in a cue-specific manner

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America·1 Jun 2024