沉浸式听觉认知训练改善了老年人听力和工作记忆不同程度的噪音语音感知
Vanessa Frei1,2,3, Nathalie Giroud4,5,6,7
1Department of Computational Linguistics, Computational Neuroscience of Speech and Hearing, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. vanessa.frei@uzh.ch.
NPJ science of learning
|March 7, 2025
概括
在多感官环境中的听觉认知训练 (ACT) 改善了老年人对噪音中的语音理解. 这种方法有利于听力损失和听觉记忆减弱的个体.
科学领域:
- 听力学 听力学是指听力学.
- 认知神经科学 认知神经科学
- 老年学是指老年学的学科.
背景情况:
- 老龄化导致听力损失和难以理解在杂环境中的言语.
- 助听器提供的好处有限;听觉认知训练 (ACT) 是有前途的,但需要更好的设计.
- 现有的ACT缺乏概括性,需要对自然倾听场景进行培训.
研究的目的:
- 在听觉和虚拟多感官环境中调查短期ACT的有效性.
- 针对自然语音处理的感觉和认知方面.
- 评估老年人语音噪音感知方面的改进.
主要方法:
- 一个交叉设计研究,包括40名健康的老年参与者.
- 参与者在仅听觉和虚拟多感官环境中进行了短期ACT.
- 在训练前和训练后测量了语音噪音感知.
主要成果:
- 沉浸式ACT在多感官环境中显著增强了语音在噪音中的感知.
- 听力损失较大或听力工作记忆能力较低的参与者中,改善最为显著.
- 听觉和多感官训练都显示出好处,多感官训练特别有效.
结论:
- 结合感官和认知训练,特别是在多感官环境中,可以改善老年人对语音噪音的理解.
- 这种培训方法显示了与年龄相关的听力和认知能力下降的个体的潜力.
- 多感官ACT提供了一种有希望的途径,可以在具有挑战性的听力环境中增强沟通.
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