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A Phoneme-Scale Assessment of Multichannel Speech Enhancement Algorithms. 多通道语音增强算法的音素尺度评价。

IF 2.6 2区医学

Trends in Hearing Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/23312165241292205

Nasser-Eddine Monir, Paul Magron, Romain Serizel

{"title":"A Phoneme-Scale Assessment of Multichannel Speech Enhancement Algorithms.","authors":"Nasser-Eddine Monir, Paul Magron, Romain Serizel","doi":"10.1177/23312165241292205","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23312165241292205","url":null,"abstract":"In the intricate acoustic landscapes where speech intelligibility is challenged by noise and reverberation, multichannel speech enhancement emerges as a promising solution for individuals with hearing loss. Such algorithms are commonly evaluated at the utterance scale. However, this approach overlooks the granular acoustic nuances revealed by phoneme-specific analysis, potentially obscuring key insights into their performance. This paper presents an in-depth phoneme-scale evaluation of three state-of-the-art multichannel speech enhancement algorithms. These algorithms-filter-and-sum network, minimum variance distortionless response, and Tango-are here extensively evaluated across different noise conditions and spatial setups, employing realistic acoustic simulations with measured room impulse responses, and leveraging diversity offered by multiple microphones in a binaural hearing setup. The study emphasizes the fine-grained phoneme-scale analysis, revealing that while some phonemes like plosives are heavily impacted by environmental acoustics and challenging to deal with by the algorithms, others like nasals and sibilants see substantial improvements after enhancement. These investigations demonstrate important improvements in phoneme clarity in noisy conditions, with insights that could drive the development of more personalized and phoneme-aware hearing aid technologies. Additionally, while this study provides extensive data on the physical metrics of processed speech, these physical metrics do not necessarily imitate human perceptions of speech, and the impact of the findings presented would have to be investigated through listening tests.","PeriodicalId":48678,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Hearing","volume":"28 ","pages":"23312165241292205"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11638999/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142814772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Performance and Reliability Evaluation of an Automated Bone-Conduction Audiometry Using Machine Learning. 利用机器学习对自动骨导听力计的性能和可靠性进行评估。

IF 2.6 2区医学

Trends in Hearing Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/23312165241286456

Nicolas Wallaert, Antoine Perry, Hadrien Jean, Gwenaelle Creff, Benoit Godey, Nihaad Paraouty

{"title":"Performance and Reliability Evaluation of an Automated Bone-Conduction Audiometry Using Machine Learning.","authors":"Nicolas Wallaert, Antoine Perry, Hadrien Jean, Gwenaelle Creff, Benoit Godey, Nihaad Paraouty","doi":"10.1177/23312165241286456","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23312165241286456","url":null,"abstract":"To date, pure-tone audiometry remains the gold standard for clinical auditory testing. However, pure-tone audiometry is time-consuming and only provides a discrete estimate of hearing acuity. Here, we aim to address these two main drawbacks by developing a machine learning (ML)-based approach for fully automated bone-conduction (BC) audiometry tests with forehead vibrator placement. Study 1 examines the occlusion effects when the headphones are positioned on both ears during BC forehead testing. Study 2 describes the ML-based approach for BC audiometry, with automated contralateral masking rules, compensation for occlusion effects and forehead-mastoid corrections. Next, the performance of ML-audiometry is examined in comparison to manual and conventional BC audiometry with mastoid placement. Finally, Study 3 examines the test-retest reliability of ML-audiometry. Our results show no significant performance difference between automated ML-audiometry and manual conventional audiometry. High test-retest reliability is achieved with the automated ML-audiometry. Together, our findings demonstrate the performance and reliability of the automated ML-based BC audiometry for both normal-hearing and hearing-impaired adult listeners with mild to severe hearing losses.","PeriodicalId":48678,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Hearing","volume":"28 ","pages":"23312165241286456"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11703668/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142570248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Is Recognition of Speech in Noise Related to Memory Disruption Caused by Irrelevant Sound? 噪音中的语音识别与无关声音造成的记忆中断有关吗？

IF 2.6 2区医学

Trends in Hearing Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/23312165241262517

Daniel Oberfeld, Katharina Staab, Florian Kattner, Wolfgang Ellermeier

{"title":"Is Recognition of Speech in Noise Related to Memory Disruption Caused by Irrelevant Sound?","authors":"Daniel Oberfeld, Katharina Staab, Florian Kattner, Wolfgang Ellermeier","doi":"10.1177/23312165241262517","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23312165241262517","url":null,"abstract":"Listeners with normal audiometric thresholds show substantial variability in their ability to understand speech in noise (SiN). These individual differences have been reported to be associated with a range of auditory and cognitive abilities. The present study addresses the association between SiN processing and the individual susceptibility of short-term memory to auditory distraction (i.e., the irrelevant sound effect [ISE]). In a sample of 67 young adult participants with normal audiometric thresholds, we measured speech recognition performance in a spatial listening task with two interfering talkers (speech-in-speech identification), audiometric thresholds, binaural sensitivity to the temporal fine structure (interaural phase differences [IPD]), serial memory with and without interfering talkers, and self-reported noise sensitivity. Speech-in-speech processing was not significantly associated with the ISE. The most important predictors of high speech-in-speech recognition performance were a large short-term memory span, low IPD thresholds, bilaterally symmetrical audiometric thresholds, and low individual noise sensitivity. Surprisingly, the susceptibility of short-term memory to irrelevant sound accounted for a substantially smaller amount of variance in speech-in-speech processing than the nondisrupted short-term memory capacity. The data confirm the role of binaural sensitivity to the temporal fine structure, although its association to SiN recognition was weaker than in some previous studies. The inverse association between self-reported noise sensitivity and SiN processing deserves further investigation.","PeriodicalId":48678,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Hearing","volume":"28 ","pages":"23312165241262517"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11273587/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141761865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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ADT Network: A Novel Nonlinear Method for Decoding Speech Envelopes From EEG Signals. ADT 网络：从脑电图信号中解码语音包络的新型非线性方法

IF 2.6 2区医学

Trends in Hearing Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/23312165241282872

Ruixiang Liu, Chang Liu, Dan Cui, Huan Zhang, Xinmeng Xu, Yuxin Duan, Yihu Chao, Xianzheng Sha, Limin Sun, Xiulan Ma, Shuo Li, Shijie Chang

{"title":"ADT Network: A Novel Nonlinear Method for Decoding Speech Envelopes From EEG Signals.","authors":"Ruixiang Liu, Chang Liu, Dan Cui, Huan Zhang, Xinmeng Xu, Yuxin Duan, Yihu Chao, Xianzheng Sha, Limin Sun, Xiulan Ma, Shuo Li, Shijie Chang","doi":"10.1177/23312165241282872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23312165241282872","url":null,"abstract":"Decoding speech envelopes from electroencephalogram (EEG) signals holds potential as a research tool for objectively assessing auditory processing, which could contribute to future developments in hearing loss diagnosis. However, current methods struggle to meet both high accuracy and interpretability. We propose a deep learning model called the auditory decoding transformer (ADT) network for speech envelope reconstruction from EEG signals to address these issues. The ADT network uses spatio-temporal convolution for feature extraction, followed by a transformer decoder to decode the speech envelopes. Through anticausal masking, the ADT considers only the current and future EEG features to match the natural relationship of speech and EEG. Performance evaluation shows that the ADT network achieves average reconstruction scores of 0.168 and 0.167 on the SparrKULee and DTU datasets, respectively, rivaling those of other nonlinear models. Furthermore, by visualizing the weights of the spatio-temporal convolution layer as time-domain filters and brain topographies, combined with an ablation study of the temporal convolution kernels, we analyze the behavioral patterns of the ADT network in decoding speech envelopes. The results indicate that low- (0.5-8 Hz) and high-frequency (14-32 Hz) EEG signals are more critical for envelope reconstruction and that the active brain regions are primarily distributed bilaterally in the auditory cortex, consistent with previous research. Visualization of attention scores further validated previous research. In summary, the ADT network balances high performance and interpretability, making it a promising tool for studying neural speech envelope tracking.","PeriodicalId":48678,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Hearing","volume":"28 ","pages":"23312165241282872"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11489951/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142478206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Development of a Phrase-Based Speech-Recognition Test Using Synthetic Speech. 利用合成语音开发基于短语的语音识别测试。

IF 2.6 2区医学

Trends in Hearing Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/23312165241261490

Saskia Ibelings, Thomas Brand, Esther Ruigendijk, Inga Holube

{"title":"Development of a Phrase-Based Speech-Recognition Test Using Synthetic Speech.","authors":"Saskia Ibelings, Thomas Brand, Esther Ruigendijk, Inga Holube","doi":"10.1177/23312165241261490","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23312165241261490","url":null,"abstract":"Speech-recognition tests are widely used in both clinical and research audiology. The purpose of this study was the development of a novel speech-recognition test that combines concepts of different speech-recognition tests to reduce training effects and allows for a large set of speech material. The new test consists of four different words per trial in a meaningful construct with a fixed structure, the so-called phrases. Various free databases were used to select the words and to determine their frequency. Highly frequent nouns were grouped into thematic categories and combined with related adjectives and infinitives. After discarding inappropriate and unnatural combinations, and eliminating duplications of (sub-)phrases, a total number of 772 phrases remained. Subsequently, the phrases were synthesized using a text-to-speech system. The synthesis significantly reduces the effort compared to recordings with a real speaker. After excluding outliers, measured speech-recognition scores for the phrases with 31 normal-hearing participants at fixed signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) revealed speech-recognition thresholds (SRT) for each phrase varying up to 4 dB. The median SRT was -9.1 dB SNR and thus comparable to existing sentence tests. The psychometric function's slope of 15 percentage points per dB is also comparable and enables efficient use in audiology. Summarizing, the principle of creating speech material in a modular system has many potential applications.","PeriodicalId":48678,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Hearing","volume":"28 ","pages":"23312165241261490"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11273571/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141761864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Speech-Identification During Standing as a Multitasking Challenge for Young, Middle-Aged and Older Adults. 站立时的语音识别是年轻人、中年人和老年人面临的一项多重任务挑战。

IF 2.6 2区医学

Trends in Hearing Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/23312165241260621

Mira Van Wilderode, Nathan Van Humbeeck, Ralf Krampe, Astrid van Wieringen

{"title":"Speech-Identification During Standing as a Multitasking Challenge for Young, Middle-Aged and Older Adults.","authors":"Mira Van Wilderode, Nathan Van Humbeeck, Ralf Krampe, Astrid van Wieringen","doi":"10.1177/23312165241260621","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23312165241260621","url":null,"abstract":"While listening, we commonly participate in simultaneous activities. For instance, at receptions people often stand while engaging in conversation. It is known that listening and postural control are associated with each other. Previous studies focused on the interplay of listening and postural control when the speech identification task had rather high cognitive control demands. This study aimed to determine whether listening and postural control interact when the speech identification task requires minimal cognitive control, i.e., when words are presented without background noise, or a large memory load. This study included 22 young adults, 27 middle-aged adults, and 21 older adults. Participants performed a speech identification task (auditory single task), a postural control task (posture single task) and combined postural control and speech identification tasks (dual task) to assess the effects of multitasking. The difficulty levels of the listening and postural control tasks were manipulated by altering the level of the words (25 or 30 dB SPL) and the mobility of the platform (stable or moving). The sound level was increased for adults with a hearing impairment. In the dual-task, listening performance decreased, especially for middle-aged and older adults, while postural control improved. These results suggest that even when cognitive control demands for listening are minimal, interaction with postural control occurs. Correlational analysis revealed that hearing loss was a better predictor than age of speech identification and postural control.","PeriodicalId":48678,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Hearing","volume":"28 ","pages":"23312165241260621"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11282555/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141761866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A Perspective on Auditory Wellness: What It Is, Why It Is Important, and How It Can Be Managed. 听觉健康透视：听觉健康是什么、为什么重要以及如何管理。

IF 2.6 2区医学

Trends in Hearing Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/23312165241273342

Larry E Humes, Sumitrajit Dhar, Vinaya Manchaiah, Anu Sharma, Theresa H Chisolm, Michelle L Arnold, Victoria A Sanchez

{"title":"A Perspective on Auditory Wellness: What It Is, Why It Is Important, and How It Can Be Managed.","authors":"Larry E Humes, Sumitrajit Dhar, Vinaya Manchaiah, Anu Sharma, Theresa H Chisolm, Michelle L Arnold, Victoria A Sanchez","doi":"10.1177/23312165241273342","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23312165241273342","url":null,"abstract":"During the last decade, there has been a move towards consumer-centric hearing healthcare. This is a direct result of technological advancements (e.g., merger of consumer grade hearing aids with consumer grade earphones creating a wide range of hearing devices) as well as policy changes (e.g., the U.S. Food and Drug Administration creating a new over-the-counter [OTC] hearing aid category). In addition to various direct-to-consumer (DTC) hearing devices available on the market, there are also several validated tools for the self-assessment of auditory function and the detection of ear disease, as well as tools for education about hearing loss, hearing devices, and communication strategies. Further, all can be made easily available to a wide range of people. This perspective provides a framework and identifies tools to improve and maintain optimal auditory wellness across the adult life course. A broadly available and accessible set of tools that can be made available on a digital platform to aid adults in the assessment and as needed, the improvement, of auditory wellness is discussed.","PeriodicalId":48678,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Hearing","volume":"28 ","pages":"23312165241273342"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11329910/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141989242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Development and Evaluation of a Loudness Validation Method With Natural Signals for Hearing Aid Fitting. 助听器配配中自然信号响度验证方法的开发与评价。

IF 2.6 2区医学

Trends in Hearing Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/23312165241299778

Mats Exter, Theresa Jansen, Laura Hartog, Dirk Oetting

{"title":"Development and Evaluation of a Loudness Validation Method With Natural Signals for Hearing Aid Fitting.","authors":"Mats Exter, Theresa Jansen, Laura Hartog, Dirk Oetting","doi":"10.1177/23312165241299778","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23312165241299778","url":null,"abstract":"Loudness is a fundamental dimension of auditory perception. When hearing impairment results in a loudness deficit, hearing aids are typically prescribed to compensate for this. However, the relationship between an individual's specific hearing impairment and the hearing aid fitting strategy used to address it is usually not straightforward. Various iterations of fine-tuning and troubleshooting by the hearing care professional are required, based largely on experience and the introspective feedback from the hearing aid user. We present the development of a new method for validating an individual's loudness perception of natural signals relative to a normal-hearing reference. It is a measurement method specifically designed for the situation typically encountered by hearing care professionals, namely, with hearing-impaired individuals in the free field with their hearing aids in place. In combination with the qualitative user feedback that the measurement is fast and that its results are intuitively displayed and easily interpretable, the method fills a gap between existing tools and is well suited to provide concrete guidance and orientation to the hearing care professional in the process of individual gain adjustment.","PeriodicalId":48678,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Hearing","volume":"28 ","pages":"23312165241299778"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11788813/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142781551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Effects of Monaural Temporal Electrode Asynchrony and Channel Interactions in Bilateral and Unilateral Cochlear-Implant Stimulation. 单耳颞电极不同步和通道相互作用对双侧和单侧人工耳蜗刺激的影响

IF 2.6 2区医学

Trends in Hearing Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/23312165241271340

Martin J Lindenbeck, Piotr Majdak, Bernhard Laback

{"title":"Effects of Monaural Temporal Electrode Asynchrony and Channel Interactions in Bilateral and Unilateral Cochlear-Implant Stimulation.","authors":"Martin J Lindenbeck, Piotr Majdak, Bernhard Laback","doi":"10.1177/23312165241271340","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23312165241271340","url":null,"abstract":"Timing cues such as interaural time differences (ITDs) and temporal pitch are pivotal for sound localization and source segregation, but their perception is degraded in cochlear-implant (CI) listeners as compared to normal-hearing listeners. In multi-electrode stimulation, intra-aural channel interactions between electrodes are assumed to be an important factor limiting access to those cues. The monaural asynchrony of stimulation timing across electrodes is assumed to mediate the amount of these interactions. This study investigated the effect of the monaural temporal electrode asynchrony (mTEA) between two electrodes, applied similarly in both ears, on ITD-based left/right discrimination sensitivity in five CI listeners, using pulse trains with 100 pulses per second and per electrode. Forward-masked spatial tuning curves were measured at both ears to find electrode separations evoking controlled degrees of across-electrode masking. For electrode separations smaller than 3 mm, results showed an effect of mTEA. Patterns were u/v-shaped, consistent with an explanation in terms of the effective pulse rate that appears to be subject to the well-known rate limitation in electric hearing. For separations larger than 7 mm, no mTEA effects were observed. A comparison to monaural rate-pitch discrimination in a separate set of listeners and in a matched setup showed no systematic differences between percepts. Overall, an important role of the mTEA in both binaural and monaural dual-electrode stimulation is consistent with a monaural pulse-rate limitation whose effect is mediated by channel interactions. Future CI stimulation strategies aiming at improved timing-cue encoding should minimize the stimulation delay between nearby electrodes that need to be stimulated successively.","PeriodicalId":48678,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Hearing","volume":"28 ","pages":"23312165241271340"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11382250/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142113726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Impact of Trained Conditions on the Generalization of Learning Gains Following Voice Discrimination Training. 声音辨别训练后，训练条件对学习成果推广的影响

IF 2.6 2区医学

Trends in Hearing Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/23312165241275895

Yael Zaltz

{"title":"The Impact of Trained Conditions on the Generalization of Learning Gains Following Voice Discrimination Training.","authors":"Yael Zaltz","doi":"10.1177/23312165241275895","DOIUrl":"10.1177/23312165241275895","url":null,"abstract":"Auditory training can lead to notable enhancements in specific tasks, but whether these improvements generalize to untrained tasks like speech-in-noise (SIN) recognition remains uncertain. This study examined how training conditions affect generalization. Fifty-five young adults were divided into \"Trained-in-Quiet\" (n = 15), \"Trained-in-Noise\" (n = 20), and \"Control\" (n = 20) groups. Participants completed two sessions. The first session involved an assessment of SIN recognition and voice discrimination (VD) with word or sentence stimuli, employing combined fundamental frequency (F0) + formant frequencies voice cues. Subsequently, only the trained groups proceeded to an interleaved training phase, encompassing six VD blocks with sentence stimuli, utilizing either F0-only or formant-only cues. The second session replicated the interleaved training for the trained groups, followed by a second assessment conducted by all three groups, identical to the first session. Results showed significant improvements in the trained task regardless of training conditions. However, VD training with a single cue did not enhance VD with both cues beyond control group improvements, suggesting limited generalization. Notably, the Trained-in-Noise group exhibited the most significant SIN recognition improvements posttraining, implying generalization across tasks that share similar acoustic conditions. Overall, findings suggest training conditions impact generalization by influencing processing levels associated with the trained task. Training in noisy conditions may prompt higher auditory and/or cognitive processing than training in quiet, potentially extending skills to tasks involving challenging listening conditions, such as SIN recognition. These insights hold significant theoretical and clinical implications, potentially advancing the development of effective auditory training protocols.","PeriodicalId":48678,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Hearing","volume":"28 ","pages":"23312165241275895"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11367600/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142113727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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