What is it about?
The aim of the study was to develop a task involving inhibitory control of verbal responses in Swedish in order to investigate the relationship between inhibition (cognitive inhibition), and WMC, and their respective roles in speech recognition in noise performance in young individuals with normal hearing.
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Why is it important?
In today´s media- and information society, much information is transfered via acoustical signalas such as radio, internet, TV and mobile phones. In this communication society there are high demands on the ability to be able to hear, process and comprehend spoken communication, and hence make decisions and act upon them. In many situations the listening task becomes difficult due to interfering background noise. To be able to understand how various types of background noise intereferes with the listening task, it is of importance to develop methods for investigating how different cognitive abilities and speech recognition in noise relate.
Perspectives
Writing this article was interesting as, to the authors´knowledge, the Hayling Task has not previously been used as a measure of verbal inhibition in relation to speech recognition in noise. Developing a Swedish version of the Haying Task was a very interesting process, and testing this new method proved very interesting.
Dr Victoria E Stenbäck
Department of Behavioural Science and Learning
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This page is a summary of: The Swedish Hayling task, and its relation to working memory, verbal ability, and speech-recognition-in-noise, Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, March 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12206.
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