| Training to Improve Hearing Speech in Noise: Biological Mechanisms. | |
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PMID: 21799207 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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We investigated training-related improvements in listening in noise and the biological mechanisms mediating these improvements. Training-related malleability was examined using a program that incorporates cognitively based listening exercises to improve speech-in-noise perception. Before and after training, auditory brainstem responses to a speech syllable were recorded in quiet and multitalker noise from adults who ranged in their speech-in-noise perceptual ability. Controls did not undergo training but were tested at intervals equivalent to the trained subjects. Trained subjects exhibited significant improvements in speech-in-noise perception that were retained 6 months later. Subcortical responses in noise demonstrated training-related enhancements in the encoding of pitch-related cues (the fundamental frequency and the second harmonic), particularly for the time-varying portion of the syllable that is most vulnerable to perceptual disruption (the formant transition region). Subjects with the largest strength of pitch encoding at pretest showed the greatest perceptual improvement. Controls exhibited neither neurophysiological nor perceptual changes. We provide the first demonstration that short-term training can improve the neural representation of cues important for speech-in-noise perception. These results implicate and delineate biological mechanisms contributing to learning success, and they provide a conceptual advance to our understanding of the kind of training experiences that can influence sensory processing in adulthood. |
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Judy H Song; Erika Skoe; Karen Banai; Nina Kraus |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-7-28 |
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Title: Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) Volume: - ISSN: 1460-2199 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Jul |
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Created Date: 2011-7-29 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9110718 Medline TA: Cereb Cortex Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory and. |
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