Older adults’ recognition of medical terminology in hospital noise

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• What: As a first step in more deeply understanding the impact of these communication barriers in a commonly encountered situation with potentially severe real-world consequences, the authors investigate how hospital noise impacts older adults` abilities to understand sentences with medically related terms that vary in their word familiarity and frequency. Openness and transparency statement For all three experiments reported below, the authors report how the authors determined the sample sizes, all data exclusions, all manipulations, and all measures in the study. The authors compare older listeners` performance for a masker that results in energetic masking only . . .
  

   

  

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