“…Previous research (Rönnberg et al, 2008;Akeroyd, 2008;Arlinger, Lunner, Lyxell, & Pichora-Fuller, 2009;Rudner, Rönnberg, & Lunner, 2011, Engle, 2002 indicates that speech perception, especially in challenging listening conditions, is associated with working memory (WM) capacity as measured with the reading span test (RSpan, Daneman & Carpenter, 1980). It also relates to the ability to read partly masked everyday sentences as assessed by the text reception threshold test (TRT; Zekveld, George, Kramer, Goverts & Houtgast, 2007).…”