Relationship between Memory Load and Listening Demands in Age-Related Hearing Impairment

Table 1

Characterization of participant groups.

	Normal hearing		Hard of hearing
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age	63.68	6.13	64.9	5.67	0.423
Handedness	88.51	17.06	79.34	26.67	0.211
GDS	1.16	1.38	1	1.03	0.687
CTMT Trail 5–Trail 1	35.11	30.17	34.30	21.21	0.923
MoCa	25.47	2.57	26.45	3.08	0.291
Stroop interference	62.89	7.01	60.85	5.31	0.310
WST	33.42	2.77	31.55	2.87	0.046
IED pre ED errors	8.63	4.95	6.89	1.88	0.161
IED ED errors	6.26	5.99	8.05	4.65	0.310

Note. CTMT: Comprehensive Trail Making Test (in seconds); MoCa: Montreal Cognitive Assessment; WST: verbal intelligence test; IED: intra-extradimensional set shift task; SD: standard deviation. denotes significance at .