Hearing loss is associated with delayed neural responses to continuous speech

Author:

Gillis MarliesORCID,Decruy Lien,Vanthornhout Jonas,Francart TomORCID

Abstract

AbstractWe investigated the impact of hearing loss on the neural processing of speech. Using a forward modeling approach, we compared the neural responses to continuous speech of 14 adults with sensorineural hearing loss with those of age-matched normal-hearing peers.Compared to their normal-hearing peers, hearing-impaired listeners had increased neural tracking and delayed neural responses to continuous speech in quiet. The latency also increased with the degree of hearing loss. As speech understanding decreased, neural tracking decreased in both populations; however, a significantly different trend was observed for the latency of the neural responses. For normal-hearing listeners, the latency increased with increasing background noise level. However, for hearing-impaired listeners, this increase was not observed.Our results support the idea that the neural response latency indicates the efficiency of neural speech processing. Hearing-impaired listeners process speech in silence less efficiently than normal-hearing listeners. Our results suggest that this reduction in neural speech processing efficiency is a gradual effect which occurs as hearing deteriorates. Moreover, the efficiency of neural speech processing in hearing-impaired listeners is already at its lowest level when listening to speech in quiet, while normal-hearing listeners show a further decrease in efficiency when the noise level increases.From our results, it is apparent that sound amplification does not solve hearing loss. Even when listing to speech in silence at a comfortable loudness, hearing-impaired listeners process speech less efficiently.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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