Speech recognition in noise across the life span with cognition and hearing sensitivity as mediators of age effects.

Sci Rep · 2025 · PMC12215552 · PMID 40594646

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The SEM disentangled the direct and mediated contributions of each predictor, showing that the indirect effect of age-squared via hearing sensitivity was only modest (β = 0.09, p = .042) and marginally non-significant in its linear path (β = 0.07, p = .054).

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