TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of severe bothersome tinnitus on cognitive function measured with standardized tests
AU - Pierce, Katherine J.
AU - Kallogjeri, Dorina
AU - Piccirillo, Jay F.
AU - Garcia, Keith S.
AU - Nicklaus, Joyce E.
AU - Burton, Harold
N1 - Funding Information:
Contract grant sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH); Contract grant number: DC009095. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. The authors express their sincere thanks to the study participants. Declaration of interest: There are no conflicts of interest.
PY - 2012/2/1
Y1 - 2012/2/1
N2 - Neurocognitive tests compared abilities in people with bothersome tinnitus against an age-, gender-, and education-matched normative population. Participants between 18 and 60 years had subjective, unilateral or bilateral, nonpulsatile tinnitus for >6 months and a Tinnitus Handicap Inventory score of 38. Results from a first testing session showed deficits in learning, learning rates, immediate recall of heard words, and use of a serial order encoding strategy. Initial reliance on serial order encoding and, later, increased intrusion of incorrect words towards normal levels might indicate a less demanding strategy to compensate for weakness in associative memory for semantic categories.
AB - Neurocognitive tests compared abilities in people with bothersome tinnitus against an age-, gender-, and education-matched normative population. Participants between 18 and 60 years had subjective, unilateral or bilateral, nonpulsatile tinnitus for >6 months and a Tinnitus Handicap Inventory score of 38. Results from a first testing session showed deficits in learning, learning rates, immediate recall of heard words, and use of a serial order encoding strategy. Initial reliance on serial order encoding and, later, increased intrusion of incorrect words towards normal levels might indicate a less demanding strategy to compensate for weakness in associative memory for semantic categories.
KW - Attention
KW - Cognition
KW - Memory
KW - Standardized tests
KW - Tinnitus
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84856848123&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13803395.2011.623120
DO - 10.1080/13803395.2011.623120
M3 - Article
C2 - 22168528
AN - SCOPUS:84856848123
SN - 1380-3395
VL - 34
SP - 126
EP - 134
JO - Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
JF - Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
IS - 2
ER -