Both working memory and speech-in-noise ability decline with age.

Evidence

I retired from the listening panel. Figure 3.6a shows my hearing performance, which could have been worse, but the hearing threshold is a crude metric, ignoring much. Now I enjoy music and movies. I still have opinions, but they are my own. It was a bitter pill. Critical listening is a young person’s game, but then only if the young person has functioning ears. — , Toole, Floyd E - Sound reproduction-…, 1802 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Working memory correlates with speech-in-noise performance only in middle-aged and older normal-hearing listeners — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1120; Critical listening ability declines with age even for experts — , Toole, Floyd E - Sound reproduction-…, 1802

Broader Connections

• Critical listening ability declines with age even for experts #exemplifies (0.80) — , Toole, Floyd E - Sound reproduction-…, 1802