Text Captioning Buffers Against the Effects of Background Noise and Hearing Loss on Memory for Speech
Text Captioning Buffers Against the Effects of Background Noise and Hearing Loss on Memory for Speech
Objective: Everyday speech understanding frequently occurs in perceptually demanding environments, for example, due to background noise and normal age-related hearing loss. The resulting degraded speech signals increase listening effort, which gives rise to negative downstream effects on subsequent memory and comprehension, even when speech is intelligible. In two experiments, we …