Auditory Learning Using a Portable Real-Time Vocoder: Preliminary Findings.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Although traditional study of auditory training has been in controlled laboratory settings, interest has been increasing in more interactive options. The authors examine whether such interactive training can result in short-term perceptual learning, and the range of perceptual skills it impacts.

Method

Experiments 1 (N = 37) and 2 (N = 21) used pre- and posttest measures of speech and nonspeech recognition to find evidence of learning (within subject) and to compare the effects of 3 kinds of training (between subject) on the perceptual abilities of adults with normal hearing listening to simulations of cochlear implant processing. Subjects were given interactive, standard lab-based, or control training experience for 1 hr between the pre- and posttest tasks (unique s

SUBMITTER: Casserly ED 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4490076 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature