Speech Perception With High Cognitive Demand
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Conditions studied: Speech Intelligibility, Aging
In brief
With advancing age, adults experience increasing speech understanding difficulties in challenging situations. Currently, speech-in-noise difficulties are rehabilitated by providing hearing aids. For older normal-hearing adults, however, hearing devices do not provide much benefit since these adults do not have a decreased hearing sensitivity. The goal of the "Speech Perception with High Cognitive Demand" Project is to evaluate the benefit of a new auditory-cognitive training paradigm. In order to provide maximal benefit for older, normal-hearing adults, a validation of the new training materials is required. In a pilot study, the investigators will evaluate the new auditory-cognitive training paradigm in 15 young, normal-hearing adults (18-30 years). Based on these results, the training paradigm can be further optimized for older adults.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT04698356
- Run by
- University of Maryland, College Park
- People needed
- 15
- Starts
- 2021-04-09
- Expected to finish
- 2021-07-31
- Last updated by the study team
- 2023-05-30
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 30. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Age between 18-30 years
- Normal hearing (pure-tone thresholds <= 25 dB HL from 250-8000 Hz)
- Dominant language: American English
- Education: a high school diploma or higher educational level
You may not qualify if…
- Middle-ear or inner ear pathology
- Non-native speaker of English
- Inability to complete all training sessions within a pre-specified time window (e.g., due to unexpected schedule restrictions)
- Learning disorders.
Where it is running
- Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences — College Park, Maryland, United States
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