Abstract
Recent empirical evidence underscoring the necessity of considering the role hearing abilities when using auditory tasks to assess age-related changes in cognitive abilities is presented. Young participants, screened for hearing impairment, were required to perform a simulated driving task concurrently with an auditory task in which stimuli were presented at intensity levels simulating age-related hearing impairment. Young participants demonstrated performance decrements mirroring those of older participants in a separate but similar dual task investigation. In conjunction with evidence found by previous researchers, the results presented here provide clear evidence for the need to utilize methodologies that account for age-related hearing deficit when using auditory tasks as indices of cognitive abilities with older adults.
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