Trial reportCurrent biology : CB2017
Audiomotor Perceptual Training Enhances Speech Intelligibility in Background Noise.
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- Rate Discrimination Training May Partially Restore Temporal Processing Abilities from Age-Related Deficits.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2022Trial
- An Augmented Reality Audio-Motor Training Game for Improving Speech-in-Noise Perception: Single-Arm Pilot Feasibility Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- Perceptual and neural biomarkers of distraction from an external sound source are not associated with tinnitus severity.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Effects of Gamification on Performance and Subjective Listening Effort on a Spatial Release From Masking Task.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2025Article
- Category learning drives cortical attentional gain to diagnostic dimensions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Cognitive Predictors of Perception and Adaption to Dysarthric Speech in Older Adults.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2025Article
- The slowest timescales of neural synchronization reveal the strongest influence of auditory distraction.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- A Brain-Computer Interface for Improving Auditory Attention in Multi-Talker Environments.IEEE access : practical innovations, open solutions · 2025Article
- Auditory discrimination improvement in young adults by a digital auditory game-based training protocol.PloS one · 2025Article
- Neural Delays in Processing Speech in Background Noise Minimized after Short-Term Auditory Training.Biology · 2024Article
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- Virtual reality games for spatial hearing training in children and young people with bilateral cochlear implants: the "Both Ears (BEARS)" approach.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Neural Mechanisms Related to the Enhanced Auditory Selective Attention Following Neurofeedback Training: Focusing on Cortical Oscillations.Applied sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Effects of Gamification on Assessment of Spatial Release From Masking.American journal of audiology · 2023Article
- How moderation affects remote psychophysical tasks with children.JASA express letters · 2023Article
- Automatic identification of tinnitus malingering based on overt and covert behavioral responses during psychoacoustic testing.NPJ digital medicine · 2022Article
- Estimated cochlear neural degeneration is associated with loudness hypersensitivity in individuals with normal audiograms.JASA express letters · 2022Article
- FORUM: Remote testing for psychological and physiological acoustics.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2022Article
- Tactile angle discriminability improvement: contributions of working memory training and continuous attended sensory input.Journal of neurophysiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Sensory and motor skills can be improved with training, but learning is often restricted to practice stimuli. As an exception, training on closed-loop (CL) sensorimotor interfaces, such as action video games and musical instruments, can impart a broad spectrum of perceptual benefits. Here we ask whether computerized CL auditory training can enhance speech understanding in levels of background noise that approximate a crowded restaurant. Elderly hearing-impaired subjects trained for 8 weeks on a CL game that, like a musical instrument, challenged them to monitor subtle deviations between predicted and actual auditory feedback as they moved their fingertip through a virtual soundscape. We performed our study as a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial by training other subjects in an auditory working-memory (WM) task. Subjects in both groups improved at their respective auditory tasks and reported comparable expectations for improved speech processing, thereby controlling for placebo effects. Whereas speech intelligibility was unchanged after WM training, subjects in the CL training group could correctly identify 25% more words in spoken sentences or digit sequences presented in high levels of background noise. Numerically, CL audiomotor training provided more than three times the benefit of our subjects' hearing aids for speech processing in noisy listening conditions. Gains in speech intelligibility could be predicted from gameplay accuracy and baseline inhibitory control. However, benefits did not persist in the absence of continuing practice. These studies employ stringent clinical standards to demonstrate that perceptual learning on a computerized audio game can transfer to "real-world" communication challenges.
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