An interventional study of Auditory training with feedback and Listening paradigm with no feedback in Auditory Perceptual Disorders and Aging Problems, sponsored by University of Maryland, College Park. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 85 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-03-14.
Sponsored by University of Maryland, College Park · Not applicable, Interventional, and Health services research
Among 11 studies in Auditory Perceptual Disorders with a site in United States — 2 open to participants now, 2 under way, none of them phase 3. Auditory Perceptual Disorders · United States.
Among the 11 studies in Auditory Perceptual Disorders with a site in United States, this one is one of 2 that started in 2018, is one of 8 with no phase, and was the 7th registered.
24 studies on the registry are indexed under Auditory Perceptual Disorders; 3 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 82 is above the median of 52 across 18 interventional studies indexed under Auditory Perceptual Disorders.
Browse Auditory Perceptual Disorders studies →2 of the 11 studies in Auditory Perceptual Disorders with a site in United States are open now, in 1 country. Each count lists the studies.
Of the 3 Auditory Perceptual Disorders studies recruiting now, 0 (0%) set no upper age limit and 2 (67%) stop at 75 or younger; 0 take children under 18; 2 take healthy volunteers.
This study: 18 Years to 85 Years · all sexes · healthy volunteers too.
The full table on the hub →11 studies; the count open now beside each. This study's row is marked.
First in 1999; this study’s year is marked. 2 started in 2018.
Median enrollment 91 across the 8 interventional studies, 126 across the 3 observational. Of the 9 that completed or were terminated, 3 (33%) have results posted.
None of the 11 has an industry lead sponsor. The 7 most frequent:
University of Maryland, College Park is the lead sponsor of 62 studies on the registry; 15 are open to participants now.
University of Maryland, College Park has 3 studies filed under Auditory Perceptual Disorders — fewer than ten, so there is no comparison to draw.
1 of the studies in Auditory Perceptual Disorders with a site in United States that are under way reach primary completion within a year, 0 of them phase 3. Phase 3 first, then by date:
| Study | Primary completion |
|---|---|
| NCT06117254VA Office of Research and DevelopmentHearing Aids for Veterans With Functional Hearing Difficulties | 2027-10-29 |
Among the 11 studies in Auditory Perceptual Disorders with a site in United States, from their registry updates:
Nothing recorded among them since 2026-09-25.
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.
This research program in speech perception and auditory psychophysics examines the hypothesis that many of the predominant difficulties in speech understanding of elderly listeners are related to underlying problems in auditory temporal processing. One form of degraded speech that is particularly difficult for elderly listeners to perceive is accented English. Alterations of speech stress and timing with accent may be viewed as a form of degradation in temporal aspects of speech prosody, and this type of temporal distortion is the focus of investigation in the next project period. Moreover, psychoacoustic results demonstrate that large age-related difficulties in temporal processing exist for the perception of auditory tempo and rhythmic characteristics of sequential stimulus patterns featuring a stressed tone. Listener processing difficulty could be attributed to peripheral and/or central processing mechanisms, as well as various cognitive factors, including the degree of familiarity with prosodic features of different native languages. The project examines the relative contribution of peripheral hearing impairment, type of stimulus temporal complexity and cognitive demand, and the linguistic background experience of listeners on the processing of temporal prosody cues in speech and non-speech stimulus patterns. The project associated with this clinical trial examines the efficacy of auditory training paradigms with stimuli that feature temporal contrasts for improving perception of accented English and non-speech sequences by older people. The research described in this application seeks to address one goal outlined by the National Institute on Aging: to develop effective interventions to maintain health and function and prevent or reduce the burden of age-related diseases, disorders, and disabilities. The approach in this research program involves (a) an assessment of the problems encountered in daily activities by the elderly population, (b) an analysis of specific task demands in relation to individual capabilities, and (c) basic research on sensory and perceptual changes with age and on the ameliorating effects of emerging technologies (including rehabilitation). This three-dimensional approach is expected to further progress toward improving communication and health-related quality of life for senior citizens.
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Short tests of memory and thinking, each scored out of 30. Lower scores suggest more difficulty; criteria give a range, either to include people with memory problems or to leave them out.
MMSE and MoCA
Short tests of memory and thinking, each scored out of 30. Lower scores suggest more difficulty; criteria give a range, either to include people with memory problems or to leave them out.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Auditory training with feedback
Behavioral: Auditory training with feedback
Pre-post testing only; no training
Listening task with no feeback
Behavioral: Listening paradigm with no feedback
Experimental group receives phoneme-level and sentence-level training with feedback
Active controls listen to acoustic stimuli with no feedback
Recognition of accented speech stimuli used for training
Scale: Accented words (n = 160) and accented sentences (n = 35 sentences) used in training; construct: measures percent correct recognition; minimum score = 0%, maximum score = 100%. Higher values are considered a better outcome
Time frame: 1 day
Generalization of benefit in recognizing accented speech
Scale: Accented words (n = 48) and accented sentences (n = 10 sentences) with new talker and speech stimuli not used in training. Construct measures percent correct recognition score for accented words and sentences not used in training, with minimum = 0% and maximum = 100%. Better performance is a higher percent correct score.
Time frame: 1 day
Retention of benefit in recognizing accented speech
Scale: Accented words (n = 64) and accented sentences (n = 90). For words: familiar words and familiar talkers (n = 32) and new talkers and new words (n = 32). For sentences: familiar talkers and words (used in training; n = 40), new talkers and new lists not heard before (n = 20), and talkers and sentences heard before but not used in training (n = 30). Construct: percent correct recognition for trained talker and lists, new talkers and new stimuli, and familiar talkers and lists not used in training. Construct: percent correct recognition (min = 0%, max = 100%), with better performance a higher recognition score.
Time frame: through study completion, an average of two weeks
Plan to share: No
Ran from Jan 2018 to primary completion in Jun 2020, 29 months.
Of 12 interventional studies with no phase under Auditory Perceptual Disorders, half reached primary completion within 56 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 16 and three quarters within 62. This study's 29 months is below that.
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