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Carroll, Rebecca ORCID: 0000-0002-6714-4944, Meis, Markus, Schulte, Michael, Vormann, Matthias, Kiessling, Juergen and Meister, Hartmut (2015). Development of a German reading span test with dual task design for application in cognitive hearing research. Int. J. Audiol., 54 (2). S. 136 - 142. ABINGDON: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 1708-8186

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Abstract

Objective: To report the development of a standardized German version of a reading span test (RST) with a dual task design. Special attention was paid to psycholinguistic control of the test items and time-sensitive scoring. We aim to establish our RST version to use for determining an individual's working memory in the framework of hearing research in German contexts. Design: RST stimuli were controlled and pretested for psycholinguistic factors. The RST task was to read sentences, quickly determine their plausibility, and later recall certain words to determine a listener's individual reading span. RST results were correlated with outcomes of additional sentence-in-noise tests measured in an aided and an unaided listening condition, each at two reception thresholds. Study sample: Item plausibility was pre-determined by 28 native German participants. An additional 62 listeners (45-86 years, M = 69.8) with mild-to-moderate hearing loss were tested for speech intelligibility and reading span in a multicenter study. Results: The reading span test significantly correlated with speech intelligibility at both speech reception thresholds in the aided listening condition. Conclusion: Our German RST is standardized with respect to psycholinguistic construction principles of the stimuli, and is a cognitive correlate of intelligibility in a German matrix speech-in-noise test.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Carroll, Rebecca UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6714-4944 UNSPECIFIED Meis, Markus UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Schulte, Michael UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Vormann, Matthias UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Kiessling, Juergen UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Meister, Hartmut UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-413680
DOI:	10.3109/14992027.2014.952458
Journal or Publication Title:	Int. J. Audiol.
Volume:	54
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 136 - 142
Date:	2015
Publisher:	TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Place of Publication:	ABINGDON
ISSN:	1708-8186
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language WORKING-MEMORY CAPACITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION; NOISE; AID Multiple languages Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology; Otorhinolaryngology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/41368