The contribution of auditory temporal processing to the separation of competing speech signals in listeners with normal hearing

2002 ◽  
Vol 111 (5) ◽  
pp. 2429
Author(s):  
Trudy J. Adam ◽  
Kathy Pichora-Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Processing ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Speech Signals ◽  
Auditory Temporal Processing ◽  
Competing Speech

F0 Processing and the Seperation of Competing Speech Signals by Listeners With Normal Hearing and With Hearing Loss

1998 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 1294-1306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Van Summers ◽  
Marjorie R. Leek
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Speech Signals ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Competing Speech

Normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners were tested to determine F0 difference limens for synthetic tokens of 5 steady-state vowels. The same stimuli were then used in a concurrent-vowel labeling task with the F0 difference between concurrent vowels ranging between 0 and 4 semitones. Finally, speech recognition was tested for synthetic sentences in the presence of a competing synthetic voice with the same, a higher, or a lower F0. Normal-hearing listeners and hearing-impaired listeners with small F0-discrimination (ΔF0) thresholds showed improvements in vowel labeling when there were differences in F0 between vowels on the concurrent-vowel task. Impaired listeners with high ΔF0 thresholds did not benefit from F0 differences between vowels. At the group level, normalhearing listeners benefited more than hearing-impaired listeners from F0 differences between competing signals on both the concurrent-vowel and sentence tasks. However, for individual listeners, ΔF0 thresholds and improvements in concurrent-vowel labeling based on F0 differences were only weakly associated with F0-based improvements in performance on the sentence task. For both the concurrent-vowel and sentence tasks, there was evidence that the ability to benefit from F0 differences between competing signals decreases with age.

scholarly journals Rate discrimination training may partially restore temporal processing abilities from age-related deficits

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samira Anderson ◽  
Lindsay DeVries ◽  
Edward Wilson Smith ◽  
Matthew J Goupell ◽  
Sandra Gordon-Salant
Keyword(s):  
Discrimination Training ◽  
Active Control ◽  
Temporal Processing ◽  
Training Group ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Auditory Temporal Processing ◽  
Pulse Trains ◽  
Sentence Recognition ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Rate Discrimination

The ability to understand speech in complex environments depends on the ability of the brain to preserve the precise timing characteristics of the speech signal. Age-related declines in temporal processing may contribute to the communication difficulties in challenging listening conditions experienced by older adults. The study purpose was to evaluate the effects of rate discrimination training on auditory temporal processing. A double-blind, randomized control design assigned 77 young normal-hearing, older normal-hearing, and older hearing-impaired listeners to one of two treatment groups: experimental (rate discrimination for 100-Hz and 300-Hz pulse trains) and active control (tone detection in noise). All listeners were evaluated during pre- and post-training sessions using perceptual rate discrimination of 100-, 200-, 300-, and 400-Hz band-limited pulse trains and auditory steady-state responses (ASSRs) to the same stimuli. Training generalization was evaluated using several temporal processing measures and sentence recognition tests that included time-compressed and reverberant speech stimuli. Results demonstrated a session x training group interaction for perceptual and ASSR testing to the trained frequencies (100 and 300 Hz), driven by greater improvements in the training group than in the active control group. Further, post-test rate discrimination of the older listeners reached levels that were equivalent to those of the younger listeners at pre-test. The training-specific gains generalized to untrained frequencies (200 and 400 Hz), but not to other temporal processing or sentence recognition measures. Further, non-auditory inhibition/attention performance predicted training-related improvement in rate discrimination. Overall, the results demonstrate the potential for auditory training to partially restore temporal processing in older listeners and highlight the role of cognitive function in these gains.

Induced Microgyria and Auditory Temporal Processing in Rats: A Model for Language Impairment?

1994 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 260-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. H. Fitch ◽  
P. Tallal ◽  
C. P. Brown ◽  
A. M. Galaburda ◽  
G. D. Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Processing ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Auditory Temporal Processing

scholarly journals Auditory Phenotypic Variability in Friedreich’s Ataxia Patients

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nehzat Koohi ◽  
Gilbert Thomas-Black ◽  
Paola Giunti ◽  
Doris-Eva Bamiou
Keyword(s):  
Speech Perception ◽  
Temporal Processing ◽  
Friedreich’S Ataxia ◽  
Cognitive Status ◽  
Friedreich's Ataxia ◽  
Spatial Processing ◽  
Auditory Temporal Processing ◽  
Processing Ability ◽  
Brainstem Response ◽  
Auditory Impairment

AbstractAuditory neural impairment is a key clinical feature of Friedreich’s Ataxia (FRDA). We aimed to characterize the phenotypical spectrum of the auditory impairment in FRDA in order to facilitate early identification and timely management of auditory impairment in FRDA patients and to explore the relationship between the severity of auditory impairment with genetic variables (the expansion size of GAA trinucleotide repeats, GAA1 and GAA2), when controlled for variables such as disease duration, severity of the disease and cognitive status. Twenty-seven patients with genetically confirmed FRDA underwent baseline audiological assessment (pure-tone audiometry, otoacoustic emissions, auditory brainstem response). Twenty of these patients had additional psychophysical auditory processing evaluation including an auditory temporal processing test (gaps in noise test) and a binaural speech perception test that assesses spatial processing (Listening in Spatialized Noise-Sentences Test). Auditory spatial and auditory temporal processing ability were significantly associated with the repeat length of GAA1. Patients with GAA1 greater than 500 repeats had more severe auditory temporal and spatial processing deficits, leading to poorer speech perception. Furthermore, the spatial processing ability was strongly correlated with the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) score. To our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate an association between genotype and auditory spatial processing phenotype in patients with FRDA. Auditory temporal processing, neural sound conduction, spatial processing and speech perception were more severely affected in patients with GAA1 greater than 500 repeats. The results of our study may indicate that auditory deprivation plays a role in the development of mild cognitive impairment in FRDA patients.

Effect of Realistic Test Conditions on Spectral and Temporal Processing in Normal-Hearing Listeners

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-169
Author(s):  
Yang-Soo Yoon ◽  
Callie Michelle Boren ◽  
Brianna Diaz
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Processing ◽  
Detection Threshold ◽  
Frequency Discrimination ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Discrimination Threshold ◽  
Test Environment ◽  
Test Conditions ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Test Order ◽  
Pure Tones

Purpose To measure the effect of testing conditions (in the soundproof booth vs. quiet room), test order, and number of test sessions on spectral and temporal processing in normal-hearing (NH) listeners. Method Thirty-two adult NH listeners participated in the three experiments. For all three experiments, the stimuli were presented to the left ear at the subjects' most comfortable level through headphones. All tests were administered in an adaptive three-alternative forced-choice paradigm. Experiment 1 was designed to compare the effect of soundproof booth and quiet room test conditions on amplitude modulation detection threshold and modulation frequency discrimination threshold with each of the five modulation frequencies. Experiment 2 was designed to compare the effect of two test orders on the frequency discrimination thresholds under the quiet room test conditions. The thresholds were first measured in the ascending and descending order of four pure tones, and then with counterbalanced order. For Experiment 3, the amplitude discrimination threshold under the quiet room testing condition was assessed 3 times to determine the effect of the number of test sessions. Then the thresholds were compared over the sessions. Results Results showed no significant effect of test environment. The test order is an important variable for frequency discrimination, particularly between piano tunes and pure tones. Results also show no significant difference across test sessions. Conclusions These results suggest that a controlled test environment may not be required in spectral and temporal assessment for NH listeners. Under the quiet test environment, a single outcome measure is sufficient, but test orders should be counterbalanced.

scholarly journals Postnatal development of synaptic properties of the GABAergic projection from the inferior colliculus to the auditory thalamus

2013 ◽  
Vol 109 (12) ◽  
pp. 2866-2882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yamini Venkataraman ◽  
Edward L Bartlett
Keyword(s):  
Inferior Colliculus ◽  
Temporal Processing ◽  
Brain Slices ◽  
Critical Time ◽  
Membrane Properties ◽  
Auditory Temporal Processing ◽  
Postsynaptic Potentials ◽  
Auditory Thalamus ◽  
Inhibitory Postsynaptic Potentials ◽  
Medial Geniculate

The development of auditory temporal processing is important for processing complex sounds as well as for acquiring reading and language skills. Neuronal properties and sound processing change dramatically in auditory cortex neurons after the onset of hearing. However, the development of the auditory thalamus or medial geniculate body (MGB) has not been well studied over this critical time window. Since synaptic inhibition has been shown to be crucial for auditory temporal processing, this study examined the development of a feedforward, GABAergic connection to the MGB from the inferior colliculus (IC), which is also the source of sensory glutamatergic inputs to the MGB. IC-MGB inhibition was studied using whole cell patch-clamp recordings from rat brain slices in current-clamp and voltage-clamp modes at three age groups: a prehearing group [ postnatal day (P)7–P9], an immediate posthearing group (P15–P17), and a juvenile group (P22–P32) whose neuronal properties are largely mature. Membrane properties matured substantially across the ages studied. GABAA and GABAB inhibitory postsynaptic potentials were present at all ages and were similar in amplitude. Inhibitory postsynaptic potentials became faster to single shocks, showed less depression to train stimuli at 5 and 10 Hz, and were overall more efficacious in controlling excitability with age. Overall, IC-MGB inhibition becomes faster and more precise during a time period of rapid changes across the auditory system due to the codevelopment of membrane properties and synaptic properties.

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