Effect of 24 Hours of Sleep Deprivation on Auditory and Linguistic Perception: A Comparison Among Young Controls, Sleep-Deprived Participants, Dyslexic Readers, and Aging Adults

Abstract

A variety of linguistic skills are affected by sleep deprivation. The comparison of sleep-deprived individuals with other groups with known difficulties in these linguistic skills might suggest that different groups exhibit common difficulties.

Card playing enhances speech perception among aging adults: comparison with aging musicians

“…Both tones were 1 kHz 15 ms, and each presented to a different ear (participants' responses were either "right-left" or "left-right"). This task was performed in the same manner as in Fostick et al (2014) and . The tone pairs were presented with an ISI of either 5, 10, 15, 30, 60, 90, 120 or 240 ms. Each value repeated 16 times in "left-right" order and 16 times in "right-left" order, resulting in 256 trials that were presented in a different and random order for each participant.…”

“…A common complaint among the elderly is difficulty in understanding speech, especially when it is rapid, or accompanied by background noise or multi-talkers (Ben-David et al 2011;Heinrich et al 2016;Taitelbaum-Swead and Fostick 2016). This difficulty can be explained by age-related changes in several mechanisms, such as a decline in hearing sensitivity (Fitzgibbons and Gordon-Salant 2010;Souza et al 2007), poor temporal resolution (Babkoff and Fostick, in press;Ben-David et al 2012;Fitzgibbons and Gordon-Salant 2010;Fostick et al 2014), and cognitive slowness (Heinrich and Schneider 2011;Heinrich et al 2015;Pichora-Fuller and Souza 2003).…”

Short-term learning effect in different psychoacoustic measures

“…Among them are gap detection [e.g., 2,3], duration discrimination [e.g., 4,5], spectral temporal order judgment (TOJ) [e.g., 1,2,6,7], and dichotic TOJ [e.g., 1,2,6,7]. These tasks have been studied among healthy young participants and in comparison to different populations, such as aphasic patients [8][9][10][11], dyslexic readers [12][13][14][15][16], aging adults [1,6,7,[17][18][19], children with autistic spectrum disorders [20], children and young adults with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder [21,22], and sleep-deprived young adults [23,24].…”

Psychoacoustics and Neurophysiological Alterations after 30-36 Hours of Sleep Deprivation

“…Other authors have investigated neurophysiological effects of SD only, disclosing delayed latency of P300 and other waves [14,15], and auditory perception (but without neurophysiological measurements) [5,16]. …”

“…Economic loss, work and traffic accidents, health alterations, and cognitive alterations after SD are under intensive research [3]. Despite this research, hearing perception alterations after SD is weakly studied nowadays [4,5]. …”