老龄化对言语感知的影响

The Effect of Aging on Speech Perception: A Review

老年人在言语感知上有困难,言语感知障碍影响老年人生活。本文将综述老年人言语感知方面的研究,列举老年人在音段、超音段和噪声背景下的言语感知特点和表现。造成老年人言语感知障碍的原因很多,涉及生理、认知和神经机制三个方面。本文在总结前人研究的基础上对未来老年人言语感知方面的研究提供建议。对老年人言语感知的研究应该引起重视,这将为老年人言语感知障碍的临床诊断和干预提供参考。

The elderly have difficulty in speech perception and communication in challenging everyday conditions, which adversely affects their life. This article reviews previous studies on speech perception by the elderly. The elderly’s performance in speech perception in terms of segment and suprasegmental features, as well as that in noise are listed. For the elderly, there are many factors causing difficulty in speech perception, including biological, cognitive and neural aspects. After summarizing the previous findings, this article offers suggestions for further research. Research on speech perception by the elderly should be attached enough importance because it will bring some hints to the clinical diagnosis and intervention of speech perception difficulty for the elderly.