Short-term learning effect in different psychoacoustic measures

Fostick, Leah; Wechsler, Shira; Peretz, Elisheva

doi:10.1515/jbcpp-2014-0036

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“…Auditory temporal processing refers to the individual's ability to perceive brief sounds presented rapidly. This ability has been shown to correlate with linguistic abilities, such as reading, phonological awareness, and speech perception, among different groups, such as dyslexic readers (Fostick et al 2012(Fostick et al , 2014cTallal 1980), aphasic patients (Fink et al 2006;von Steinbuchel et al 1999), and older adults (Fostick et al 2013(Fostick et al , 2014b. The proposed hypothesis for the age-related decline in auditory temporal processing (as a significant factor in age-related decline in speech perception) is based on findings that the appropriate use of speech cues relies on several types of auditory temporal processing (Anderson et al 2013a, b;Ezzatian et al 2015;Gordon-Salant 2005;Fitzgibbons and Gordon-Salant 2010;Fostick and Babkoff 2013a;Kraus and Anderson 2014;Schneider and Pichora-Fuller 2001;Schneider et al 1998Schneider et al , 2002.…”

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“…The variables in the present study were chosen based on previous studies that showed them to be sensitive to aging. The auditory temporal processing variables of temporal order judgment (TOJ) and gap detection were previously reported to be related to age and to word recognition accuracy (e.g., Fink et al 2005;Fostick and Babkoff 2013a;Fostick et al 2014b;Schneider et al 1994). Word recognition against a speech-noise background or timecompressed speech has been reported to be sensitive to aging (e.g., Fostick et al 2013Fostick et al , 2014bFüllgrabe et al 2015).…”

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Age-related changes in auditory processing and speech perception: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses

Babkoff

Fostick

2017

Eur J Ageing

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Age-related differences in speech perception have been shown in previous cross-sectional studies to be related to auditory temporal processing. We examined this association in both cross-sectional and longitudinal designs, controlling for age-related changes in hearing sensitivity and cognitive ability. Fifty-eight participants were tested in two phases. In phase 1, ages ranged between 22 and 82 years. Phase 2 occurred seven years later. In both phases, participants performed auditory processing tasks, speech perception tests, and cognitive tasks. In both phases, age correlated with hearing level, auditory temporal processing thresholds, word recognition accuracy in noise, and compressed speech. Auditory temporal processing thresholds were correlated with word recognition accuracy in narrowband noise and compressed speech. Longitudinal analysis showed significant decreases in performance from phase 1 to phase 2 in hearing level, dichotic TOJ thresholds, and word recognition accuracy. Steeper slopes were observed in phase 2 than in phase 1 for correlations between age, hearing level, and word recognition accuracy in narrowband noise, but not for age and dichotic TOJ thresholds. Generalized estimating equations revealed an overall decrease in word recognition accuracy from phase 1 to phase 2; this decrease was larger for older participants. Increases in dichotic TOJ and gap detection thresholds were associated with a decrease over time in speech in narrowband and broadband noise, and compressed speech, even when adjusted for age, hearing level, and cognitive ability. These results show that both cross-sectional and longitudinal designs yield similar significant associations between temporal processing and speech perception, even when adjusted for hearing level and cognitive ability.

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Age-related changes in auditory processing and speech perception: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses

Babkoff

Fostick

2017

Eur J Ageing

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“…In the spatial TOJ task, listeners are instructed to judge the order of two short tones delivered to different ears by reporting the ear of the first tone. Compared with the spatial TOJ, the spectral version of this task is likely less sensitive to temporal and more to pattern discrimination (i.e., at short intervals, low-high and high-low pairs can be distinguished by pitch alone, because temporal integration is weighted towards the more recent sound input-see, e.g., Zwislocki 1960), an assumption supported by the finding of short-term learning in the spectral but not in the spatial version of the task (Fostick et al 2014a;Fostick and Babkoff 2013).…”

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“…The spatial TOJ threshold has been shown to be sensitive to sleep-deprivation (Fostick et al 2014b;Babkoff et al 2005) but not to the time on task (two repetitions of the threshold measurement: Babkoff 2013 andFostick et al 2014a; three repetitions: Fink et al 2005). In another study, performance even improved when participants repeatedly judged the order between two tones presented with fixed inter-stimulus interval (ISI) set at their individual threshold level (Bernasconi et al 2010).…”

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Short-term cognitive fatigue effect on auditory temporal order judgments

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Fatigue is a core symptom in many psychological disorders and it can strongly influence everyday productivity. As fatigue effects have been typically demonstrated after long hours of time on task, it was surprising that in a previous study, we accidentally found a decline of temporal order judgment (TOJ) performance within 5-8 min. After replicating prior relevant findings we tested whether pauses and/or feedback relating the participant's performance to some "standard" can eliminate or reduce this short-term performance decline. We also assessed whether the performance decline is specific to the processes evoked by the TOJ task or it is a product of either general inattentiveness or the lack of willingness to thoroughly follow the task instructions. We found that both feedback and introducing pauses between successive measurements can largely reduce the performance decline, and that these two manipulations likely mobilize overlapping capacities. Performance decline was not present in a similar task when controlling for the TOJ threshold and it was not a result of uncooperative behavior. Therefore, we conclude that the TOJ threshold decline is either specific to temporal processing in general or to the TOJ task employed in the study. Overall, the results are compatible with the notion that the decline of TOJ threshold with repeated measures represents a short-term cognitive fatigue effect. This objective fatigue measure did not correlate with subjective fatigue. The latter was rather related to perceived difficulty/effort, the reduction of positive affectivity, heightened sensitivity to criticism, and the best TOJ threshold.

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“…Professor Dubno's research is a prime example of the multi-faceted effort involved in understanding hearing and hearing impairment, combining work on ARHL, speech perception, electrophysiology and cognitive neuroscience. We hope the manuscripts in this special issue, including works on mechanism of direct stimulation of the cochlea [8], auditory evoked cortical activity [9], time-compressed speech [10], connexin 26 deafness [11], auditory perceptual development in children [12], clinical testing in cochlear implanted children [13], short-term learning effects [14], speech perception in older adults [15], and a minireview on the mechanism of soft tissue conduction [16], also reflect this multidisciplinary effort. ISAR recently became a member of Ilanit, the federation of all Israeli societies of experimental biology, which will surely help hearing investigators expand their knowledge in other areas of science.…”

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