Peripheral phoneme encoding and discrimination in aging and hearing impairment
Marjoleen Wouters, Étienne Gaudrain, Konrad Dapper, Jakob Schirmer, Deniz Başkent, Lukas Rüttiger, Marlies Knipper, Sarah Verhulst
The paper examines how aging and hearing impairment affect speech encoding and phoneme discrimination using EEG and behavioral tests, finding age-related declines in high-frequency envelope coding but preserved low-frequency encoding.
Hearing Research · Jul 18, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience