The Effect of Remote Masking on the Reception of Speech by Young School-Age Children

Youngdahl, Carla L.; Healy, Eric W.; Yoho, Sarah E.; Apoux, Frédéric; Holt, Rachael Frush

doi:10.1044/2017_jslhr-h-17-0118

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“…Modulation masking for 5year-olds was estimated to be at least twice that observed for adults. The finding that young children are more susceptible to off-frequency modulation masking than adults is consistent with results of other paradigms showing that the ability to listen in a frequency-selective manner develops with age (Werner and Bargones, 1991;Leibold and Neff, 2011;Youngdahl et al, 2018). Greater modulation masking in the gated off-frequency masker condition for children than adults likely reflects children's reduced ability to segregate and selectively attend to the target frequency under these conditions.…”

Section: Detection Of Am With Off-frequency Modulation Maskerssupporting

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Amplitude modulation detection and modulation masking in school-age children and adults

Buss

Lorenzi

Cabrera

et al. 2019

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Two experiments were performed to better understand on- and off-frequency modulation masking in normal-hearing school-age children and adults. Experiment 1 estimated thresholds for detecting 16-, 64- or 256-Hz sinusoidal amplitude modulation (AM) imposed on a 4300-Hz pure tone. Thresholds tended to improve with age, with larger developmental effects for 64- and 256-Hz AM than 16-Hz AM. Detection of 16-Hz AM was also measured with a 1000-Hz off-frequency masker tone carrying 16-Hz AM. Off-frequency modulation masking was larger for younger than older children and adults when the masker was gated with the target, but not when the masker was continuous. Experiment 2 measured detection of 16- or 64-Hz sinusoidal AM carried on a bandpass noise with and without additional on-frequency masker AM. Children and adults demonstrated modulation masking with similar tuning to modulation rate. Rate-dependent age effects for AM detection on a pure-tone carrier are consistent with maturation of temporal resolution, an effect that may be obscured by modulation masking for noise carriers. Children were more susceptible than adults to off-frequency modulation masking for gated stimuli, consistent with maturation in the ability to listen selectively in frequency, but the children were not more susceptible to on-frequency modulation masking than adults.

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Amplitude modulation detection and modulation masking in school-age children and adults

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Cabrera

et al. 2019

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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“…The current prevailing view regarding these age effects is that young children do not attend to signals of interest during listening-in-noise tasks in the same way as adults. Both investigations employing tonal stimuli (Bargones & Werner, 1994; Greenberg, Bray, & Beasley, 1970; Leibold & Neff, 2011; Werner & Bargones, 1991) and a recent study using native-accented speech (Youngdahl, Healy, Yoho, Apoux, & Holt, in press) suggest that prior to approximately 6 to 7 years of age, infants and children do not listen selectively in the spectral region containing the anticipated signal of interest. This finding is in contrast to adults, who listen selectively in the spectral region of interest (Dai, Scharf, & Buus, 1991; Scharf, Quigley, Aoki, Peachey, & Reeves, 1987; Schlauch & Hafter, 1991).…”

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Shhh… I Need Quiet! Children’s Understanding of American, British, and Japanese-accented English Speakers

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Holt

2018

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Children's ability to understand speakers with a wide range of dialects and accents is essential for efficient language development and communication in a global society. Here, the impact of regional dialect and foreign-accent variability on children's speech understanding was evaluated in both quiet and noisy conditions. Five- to seven-year-old children ( n = 90) and adults ( n = 96) repeated sentences produced by three speakers with different accents-American English, British English, and Japanese-accented English-in quiet or noisy conditions. Adults had no difficulty understanding any speaker in quiet conditions. Their performance declined for the nonnative speaker with a moderate amount of noise; their performance only substantially declined for the British English speaker (i.e., below 93% correct) when their understanding of the American English speaker was also impeded. In contrast, although children showed accurate word recognition for the American and British English speakers in quiet conditions, they had difficulty understanding the nonnative speaker even under ideal listening conditions. With a moderate amount of noise, their perception of British English speech declined substantially and their ability to understand the nonnative speaker was particularly poor. These results suggest that although school-aged children can understand unfamiliar native dialects under ideal listening conditions, their ability to recognize words in these dialects may be highly susceptible to the influence of environmental degradation. Fully adult-like word identification for speakers with unfamiliar accents and dialects may exhibit a protracted developmental trajectory.

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“…Children’s pronounced speech-in-noise difficulties may be due in part to immature allocation of attention (e.g., Nittrouer et al, 1993; Choi et al, 2008; Youngdahl et al, 2018). Young children show a tendency to listen across a broad range of frequencies, rather than the mature strategy of focusing attention only on regions associated with relevant target speech (e.g., Polka et al, 2008; Youngdahl et al, 2018). In a recent study, Youngdahl et al (2018) examined whether 5-year-olds, 7-years-olds, or young adults were susceptible to remote-frequency masking in the context of masked sentence recognition.…”

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“…Young children show a tendency to listen across a broad range of frequencies, rather than the mature strategy of focusing attention only on regions associated with relevant target speech (e.g., Polka et al, 2008; Youngdahl et al, 2018). In a recent study, Youngdahl et al (2018) examined whether 5-year-olds, 7-years-olds, or young adults were susceptible to remote-frequency masking in the context of masked sentence recognition. Target sentences were presented in quiet or in noise.…”

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Masked Speech Recognition in School-Age Children

Leibold

Buss

2019

Front. Psychol.

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Children who are typically developing often struggle to hear and understand speech in the presence of competing background sounds, particularly when the background sounds are also speech. For example, in many cases, young school-age children require an additional 5- to 10-dB signal-to-noise ratio relative to adults to achieve the same word or sentence recognition performance in the presence of two streams of competing speech. Moreover, adult-like performance is not observed until adolescence. Despite ample converging evidence that children are more susceptible to auditory masking than adults, the field lacks a comprehensive model that accounts for the development of masked speech recognition. This review provides a synthesis of the literature on the typical development of masked speech recognition. Age-related changes in the ability to recognize phonemes, words, or sentences in the presence of competing background sounds will be discussed by considering (1) how masking sounds influence the sensory encoding of target speech; (2) differences in the time course of development for speech-in-noise versus speech-in-speech recognition; and (3) the central auditory and cognitive processes required to separate and attend to target speech when multiple people are speaking at the same time.

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The Effect of Remote Masking on the Reception of Speech by Young School-Age Children

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Amplitude modulation detection and modulation masking in school-age children and adults

Amplitude modulation detection and modulation masking in school-age children and adults

Shhh… I Need Quiet! Children’s Understanding of American, British, and Japanese-accented English Speakers

Masked Speech Recognition in School-Age Children

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