Online training that helps people recognize and understand new voices could be key to helping older adults improve communication in everyday environments, finds new research.
Online training that helps people recognise and understand new voices could be key to helping older adults improve communication in everyday environments, finds research by UCL experts., tested whether learned voices were easier to understand than unfamiliar voices in 20 older and 20 younger adults.
Participants completed this exercise 468 times each and the target"familiar" voice changed throughout the trial. "Yet, in these environments, we are better at understanding people who are familiar to us, such as our family members, friends and colleagues. Based on their findings, the team believes that if a person practices listening to voices that they regularly encounter, it could improve their everyday communication.
Eventually, after technical development, they hope the training will be publicly available via a smartphone app. Interestingly, this decline occurs even when the hearing loss is below the clinical diagnosis threshold. This suggests that changes in both peripheral and central auditory processes begin before clinical hearing loss is diagnosed, explaining why people with hearing loss struggle in noisy environments.For decades, doctors and scientists have known that exercise is important for older adults -- it can lower risk for cardiac issues, strengthen bones, improve mood and provide other benefits. ...
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