TY  - JOUR
A1  - Passow, Susanne
A1  - Westerhausen, Rene
A1  - Wartenburger, Isabell
A1  - Hugdahl, Kenneth
A1  - Heekeren, Hauke R.
A1  - Lindenberger, Ulman
A1  - Li, Shu-Chen
T1  - Human aging compromises attentional control of auditory perception
JF  - Psychology and aging
N2  - Older adults often experience hearing difficulties in multitalker situations. Attentional control of auditory perception is crucial in situations where a plethora of auditory inputs compete for further processing. We combined an intensity-modulated dichotic listening paradigm with attentional manipulations to study adult age differences in the interplay between perceptual saliency and attentional control of auditory processing. When confronted with two competing sources of verbal auditory input, older adults modulated their attention less flexibly and were more driven by perceptual saliency than younger adults. These findings suggest that aging severely impairs the attentional regulation of auditory perception.
KW  - aging
KW  - auditory perception
KW  - attention
KW  - dichotic listening
KW  - hearing
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025667
SN  - 0882-7974
VL  - 27
IS  - 1
SP  - 99
EP  - 105
PB  - American Psychological Association
CY  - Washington
ER  -