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Auditory Temporal Processes in Aging

NCT03468660 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 82

Last updated 2022-03-14

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Summary

Older people experience great difficulty understanding speech, especially accented English, and this problem is expected to increase with the influx of immigrants who provide services to the elderly population. The research examines the underlying factors that contribute to older listeners' difficulty understanding accented speech, including those associated with age-related hearing loss, changes in processing in auditory pathways in the brain, and general cognitive decline. The investigation also evaluates the efficacy of training strategies to improve understanding of accented English by older people. Outcomes of this research are expected to improve communication between senior citizens and those with whom they interact daily, and thereby improve quality of life for the older segment of the Nation's population.

Conditions

  • Auditory Perceptual Disorders
  • Aging Problems

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Auditory training with feedback

Experimental group receives phoneme-level and sentence-level training with feedback

BEHAVIORAL

Listening paradigm with no feedback

Active controls listen to acoustic stimuli with no feedback

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Maryland, College Park

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sandra Gordon-Salant, Ph.D. · University of Maryland

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
85 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-01-18
Primary Completion
2020-06-30
Completion
2020-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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