Non‐verbal dichotic listening: A new cognitive hearing test for dementia
Chris J. D. Hardy, Benjamin A. Levett, Jessica Jiang, Lucy B. Core, Sophie Froud, Lauren Bishop, Dicky Lim, Faiza Durrani, Anna Volkmer, Nehzat Koohi, Doris‐Eva Bamiou, Charles R. Marshall, Jason D. Warren · 2026
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Description
Chris Hardy and co-authors test a non-verbal listening task as a dementia aid, in a study from two thousand twenty-six. Everyday sounds were played to both ears at once, unlike standard word-based tests. Groups included people with language-led dementia, typical Alzheimer's disease, a right temporal variant, and healthy controls.
Nearly all patient groups scored below controls on the sound task. Scores also tracked brain shrinkage in memory-linked regions. The task split Alzheimer's patients from controls with near-perfect accuracy. It also matched daily-life hearing complaints. The authors pitch it for diagnosis across cultures, since no words are needed.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Chris J. D. Hardy, Benjamin A. Levett, Jessica Jiang, Lucy B. Core, Sophie Froud, Lauren Bishop, Dicky Lim, Faiza Durrani, Anna Volkmer, Nehzat Koohi, Doris‐Eva Bamiou, Charles R. Marshall, Jason D. Warren |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |