Development of Functional Spatial Hearing in Reverberation
Completed · Early Phase 1
Conditions studied: Spatial Hearing Development
In brief
The goal of the clinical trial study (Phase 0) is to map out the developmental trajectory of functional spatial hearing abilities in reverberant environments for children with normal hearing between the ages of 6 and 18 years, and to understand the inter-relationships between the three perceptual abilities: auditory object size formation, spatial acuity, and spatial unmasking during typical development. Children are asked to perform psychoacoustic tasks when the auditory stimuli are processed to present in virtual acoustic environments (1) with no reverberation and (2) with one of the two levels of reverberation that emulate everyday indoor environments. The intervention of this clinical study is in the random assignment of one of the two reverberant environments. Researchers will compare these children with a group of normal-hearing adults to anchor matured performances.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT05815537
- Run by
- Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
- People needed
- 116
- Starts
- 2024-01-01
- Expected to finish
- 2026-03-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-04-28
Who can join
Age: 6 and older, up to 30. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- All individuals within age limits who are typically developing with normal hearing who pass 25 dB HL from 250 Hz to 8000 Hz.
You may not qualify if…
- Individuals who fail hearing screen as described above.
- Individuals who have a diagnosed intellectual developmental disability
Where it is running
- Boys Town National Research Hospital — Omaha, Nebraska, United States
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