Spatial hearing in middle-aged and older adults with a hearing aid: Does noise type matter?

Purpose: The present study aimed to identify the overall patterns of spatial hearing in a sample population geriatric wearing aid an actual clinical setting and investigate while paying attention aging effects separation on informational masking (IM) target speech common types noise everyday life.Methods: Nine participants (mean age: 68.9 ± 9.6) aids participated. abilities were assessed by measuring their reception threshold (SRT) release from (SRM), using speech-like (SLN) steady-state (SSN) noise-maskers.Results: results identified trend decrease SRT all conditions with increasing azimuth angles. larger target/masker separation, SRM became conditions. Results revealed that hearing-impaired experienced comparable amount IM SLN concerning SSN.Conclusions: Given these findings, did not have same as it general at younger ages. It can be inferred findings extent which maskers compromise listeners may depend age severity loss being imposed them.