Timing is everything: Temporal processing deficits in the aged auditory brainstem

• Published in: Hearing research Vol. 264; no. 1; pp. 63 - 69
• Main Author: Walton, Joseph P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.06.2010
• Subjects: Acoustic Stimulation; Age Factors; Aging; Animal models; Animals; Auditory Pathways - physiopathology; Brain Stem - physiopathology; Comprehension; Cues; Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem; Hearing Loss - physiopathology; Hearing Loss - psychology; Humans; Models, Animal; Neural correlates; Noise - adverse effects; Perceptual Masking; Psychoacoustics; Signal Detection, Psychological; Speech Perception; Temporal resolution; Time Perception; B; Animal models; BF; FM; MGB; Neural correlates; CN; AM; WC; DCN; PB; PVCN; Aging; rMTF; BMF; IC; Temporal resolution; MGT; FC; AVCN; MTF; SAM; tMTF

This summary article reviews the literature on neural correlates of age-related changes in temporal processing in the auditory brainstem. Two types of temporal processing dimensions are considered, (i) static, which can be measured using a gap detection or forward masking paradigms, and (ii) dynamic...