Title

Aging is associated with an over-sensitivity of brain responses to sounds

Authors and Researchers

BrainsCAN, Western University
Björn Herrmann, Western University
Burkhard Maess, Western University
Ingrid S. Johnsrude, Western University

Files

Description

Aging and hearing loss leads to increased neural responses to sounds in the auditory cortex compared to younger people. Enhanced neural activity to sound may be a physiological mechanism underlying the difficulty that older adults have with ignoring irrelevant sound information.

Publication Date

2018

Publisher

BrainsCAN

City

London

Keywords

Aging, Hearing and auditory perception, MEG

Disciplines

Neurosciences

Publication

Journal of Neuroscience 21 February 2018, 38 (8) 1989-1999. Available: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1489-17.2018

Funding

BrainsCAN Support
Human Cognition and Sensorimotor Core

Research Support
CIHR, MPG

Notes

Western Faculty, Group or Institution
Brain and Mind Institute

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

BrainsCAN, "Aging is associated with an over-sensitivity of brain responses to sounds" (2018). Research Summaries. 1.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/brainscanresearchsummaries/1