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The Aging Auditory System pp 135–165Cite as

Binaural Processing and Auditory Asymmetries

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Many aspects of peripheral and central auditory processing peak by adolescence (Maxon and Hochberg 1982; Hall et al. 2004, 2005) and a growing body of evidence indicates a substantial decline in audition in presenescent adults (Gates et al. 1990; Lee et al. 2005; Grose et al. 2006) that continues to deteriorate with advancing age (for reviews, see Schneider 1997; Divenyi and Simon 1999; Chisholm et al. 2003). The functional significance of this decline is often gauged in terms of the accurate perception of speech in complex acoustic backgrounds (e.g., Committee on Hearing, Bioacoustics, and Biomechanics [CHABA] 1988; van Rooij and Plomp 1990; Humes et al. 1994; Pichora-Fuller 1997; Divenyi et al. 2005), which, in turn, relies on both monaural and binaural auditory processing. Declines with age in monaural and binaural auditory processing are often compounded by concomitant peripheral hearing loss, resulting in reduced audiometric sensitivity, reduced frequency selectivity, and increased linearity of coding of intensity.

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  3. Dept. Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, 20742-4415, U.S.A.

    Arthur N. Popper

  4. Parmly Hearing Inst., Loyola University Chicago, N. Sheridan Rd. 6525, Chicago, 60626, U.S.A.

    Richard R. Fay

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Eddins, D.A., Hall, J.W. (2010). Binaural Processing and Auditory Asymmetries. In: Gordon-Salant, S., Frisina, R., Popper, A., Fay, R. (eds) The Aging Auditory System. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, vol 34. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0993-0_6

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