@inproceedings {Kollmeier1728_2016,
	year = {2016},
	author = {Kollmeier, Birger and Carroll, Rebecca and Warzybok, Anna and Uslar, Verena and Brand, Thomas and Ruigendijk, Esther},
	title = {Sentence recognition in noise: How well do we understand sensory and cognitive factors?},
	booktitle = {Proc. German Annual Conf. Acoust. (DAGA)},
	URL = {http://www.daga2016.de/fileadmin/uploads/2016.daga-tagung.de/Programm/DAGA16_Programm_online.pdf},
	abstract = {The relative contribution of sensory, bottom-up processing and cognitive,
top-down processing in speech comprehension is influenced by external
factors (like linguistic complexity, interfering noise, and reverberation)
and internal factors (like age, hearing loss, and cognitive abilities
of the listener). A review is given on joint studies from audiology and
linguistics to characterize these factors. The studies to be presented in
more detail obtained speech recognition in noise and/or reverberation in
younger (YNH) and older listeners (ONH) with normal hearing, and in older
hearing-impaired listeners (OHI). For YNH and ONH, a combination
of age, SNR, vocabulary size, and lexical access time predicted speech
recognition scores. OHI required more favorable SNR to reach the same
performance than the age-matched ONH even when speech was
presented with NAL-R amplification to (partially) compensate for their
sensory deficits. Whereas vocabulary size was unchanged and lexical
access time was increased both for ONH and OHI, working memory
slightly decreased only for OHI. This provides evidence for the importance
of non-auditory cognitive measures (like a specific combination of
vocabulary size, lexical access time, and working memory) in explaining
the comparatively poorer speech recognition scores that are observed
for older vs. younger listeners and for OHI vs. ONH.}
}