Speech Perception and High Cognitive Demand
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Official title
Auditory-cognitive Training Paradigm (NIH P01 Project - Speech Perception With High Cognitive Demand)
Brief summary
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With advancing age, adults experience increasing speech understanding difficulties in challenging situations. Currently, speech-in-noise difficulties are rehabilitated by providing hearing aids. For older normal-hearing adults, however, hearing devices do not provide much benefit since these adults do not have decreased hearing sensitivity. The goal of the "Speech Perception and High Cognitive Demand" project is to evaluate the benefit of a new auditory-cognitive training paradigm. In the present study neural (as measured by pupillometry and magnetoencephalography) and behavioral changes of speech-in-noise perception from pretest to posttest will be examined in older adults (age 65 - 85 years) assigned to one of three training groups: 1) Active Control Group: sessions of watching informational videos, 2) Auditory Training Group: sessions of auditory training listening to one of two speakers in everyday scenarios (e.g., driving directions) and needing to recall what one speaker said in the previous sentence, and 3) Auditory-cognitive training group: identical to the auditory training group, except participants will be asked to remember information from two previous sentences. Changes in speech-in-noise perception will be examined for the three groups of older adults and gains will be compared to a control group of young, normal hearing adults (18-30 years) that is not part of the clinical trial and will not undergo any training.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT04997577
- Recruitment status
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 100 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Auditory-cognitive training paradigm Behavioral
- Auditory training paradigm Behavioral
Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 65 Years to 85 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Sep 26, 2021
- Primary completion
- May 29, 2026
- Completion
- Dec 30, 2027
- Last update posted
- Apr 7, 2025
2021 – 2027
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 2
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences | College Park | Maryland | 20742 | Recruiting |
| Maryland Neuroimaging Center | College Park | Maryland | 20742 | Recruiting |
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- Last update posted Apr 7, 2025 · Synced Sep 7, 2026
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