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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2015

Auditory training can improve working memory, attention, and communication in adverse conditions for adults with hearing loss.

Melanie A Ferguson, Helen Henshaw

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04997577 (Auditory-cognitive Training Paradigm), which is not on this map. Cited by 52 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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NCT04997577 narecruitingnot on this mapstarted 2021, after this paper: background citation

Auditory-cognitive Training Paradigm (NIH P01 Project - Speech Perception With High Cognitive Demand)

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of Maryland, College ParkRan2021 to 2027Enrolled100ConditionsSpeech Intelligibility, AgingArmsAuditory-cognitive training paradigm, Auditory training paradigm
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  2. Efficacy of a structured auditory training module in older individuals with hearing loss: a randomized controlled trial.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026
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  17. Speech Sound Categories Affect Lexical Competition: Implications for Analytic Auditory Training.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Melanie A FergusonNIHR Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit, Otology and Hearing Group, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham Nottingham, UK ; Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Nottingham, UK.
Helen HenshawNIHR Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit, Otology and Hearing Group, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham Nottingham, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Auditory training (AT) helps compensate for degradation in the auditory signal. A series of three high-quality training studies are discussed, which include, (i) a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of phoneme discrimination in quiet that trained adults with mild hearing loss (n = 44), (ii) a repeated measures study that trained phoneme discrimination in noise in hearing aid (HA) users (n = 30), and (iii) a double-blind RCT that directly trained working memory (WM) in HA users (n = 57). AT resulted in generalized improvements in measures of self-reported hearing, competing speech, and complex cognitive tasks that all index executive functions. This suggests that for AT related benefits, the development of complex cognitive skills may be more important than the refinement of sensory processing. Furthermore, outcome measures should be sensitive to the functional benefits of AT. For WM training, lack of far-transfer to untrained outcomes suggests no generalized benefits to real-world listening abilities. We propose that combined auditory-cognitive training approaches, where cognitive enhancement is embedded within auditory tasks, are most likely to offer generalized benefits to the real-world listening abilities of adults with hearing loss.

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attentionauditory trainingcommunicationexecutive functionhearing aidshearing lossspeech perceptionworking memory

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PMID26074826
PMCPMC4447061

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