Improving older adults' understanding of challenging speech: Auditory training, rapid adaptation and perceptual learning.

Hear Res

Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, 0100 LeFrak Hall, 7251 Preinkert Drive, College Park, MD 20742, United States.

Published: March 2021

AI Article Synopsis

  • The literature on auditory perceptual learning and training for older adults shows diverse methods and results.
  • This review highlights key aspects related to listeners, stimuli, and training methods that impact learning outcomes.
  • Key findings indicate that older adults can still learn perceptually, but improvements may not apply to new or untrained speech signals.

Article Abstract

The literature surrounding auditory perceptual learning and auditory training for challenging speech signals in older adult listeners is highly varied, in terms of both study methodology and reported outcomes. In this review, we discuss some of the pertinent features of listener, stimulus, and training protocol. Literature regarding the elicitation of auditory perceptual learning for time-compressed speech, non-native speech, and noise-vocoded speech is reviewed, as are auditory training protocols designed to improve speech-in-noise recognition. The literature is synthesized to establish some over-arching findings for the aging population, including an intact capacity for auditory perceptual learning, but a limited transfer of learning to untrained stimuli.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7880302PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2020.108054DOI Listing

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