Differential Effects of Aging and Hearing Loss on Two Speech-Based Binaural Processes: Spectro-Temporal Integration and Interaural Cue-Based Unmasking.
OBJECTIVES Aging and hearing loss may affect the mechanisms underlying binaural speech perception, but whether spectro-temporal integration and interaural cue-based unmasking exhibit shared or dissociable vulnerabilities remains unclear. To isolate these processes, the authors combined two novel, complementary behavior...