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Trial reportScientific reports2025

Effects of multisensory simultaneity judgment training on the comprehension and cortical processing of speech in noise: a randomized controlled trial.

Ansley J Kunnath, Hannah S Bertisch, Andrew S Kim, René H Gifford, Mark T Wallace

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Trial report in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ansley J KunnathVanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA. ansley.j.kunnath@vanderbilt.edu.
Hannah S BertischVanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
Andrew S KimVanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
René H GiffordVanderbilt Brain Institute, Nashville, TN, USA.
Mark T WallaceVanderbilt Brain Institute, Nashville, TN, USA.

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM007347 · NIGMS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI WILLIAMS, CHRISTOPHER S. · 1985 to 2023
$26.3M
Overall: Eunice Kennedy Shriver Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center at VanderbiltP50HD103537 · NICHD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI Jeffrey L Neul · 2020 to 2026
$10.3M
Medical Scientist Training ProgramT32GM152284 · NIGMS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI Christopher S. Williams · 2024 to 2026
$4.8M
Multisensory Integration and Cortical Plasticity in Cochlear Implant UsersF30DC020917 · NIDCD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI KUNNATH, ANSLEY · 2022 to 2025
$153k
NICHD NIH HHS P50 HD103537NIDCD NIH HHS F30 DC020917NIDCD NIH HHS F30DC020917NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007347NIGMS NIH HHS T32GM007347NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM152284
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding speech in noise can be facilitated by integrating auditory and visual speech cues. Audiovisual temporal acuity, which can be indexed by the temporal binding window (TBW), is critical for this process and can be enhanced through simultaneity judgment training. We hypothesized that multisensory training would narrow the TBW and improve speech understanding in noise. Participants were randomized to receive either training and testing (n = 15) or testing-only (n = 15) over three days. Trained participants demonstrated significant narrowing in their mean TBW size (403ms to 345ms; p = 0.030), whereas control participants did not (409ms to 474ms; p = 0.061). Although there were no group-level changes in word recognition scores, trained participants with larger TBW decreases exhibited larger improvements in auditory word recognition in noise (R

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ComprehensionJudgmentNoiseSpeech PerceptionAcoustic StimulationAdultAuditory PerceptionFemaleHumansMaleVisual PerceptionYoung AdultAudiovisual trainingfNIRSMultisensory integrationPerceptual plasticitySimultaneity judgmentSpeech in noise

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PMID40234646
PMCPMC12000426

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