Intelligibility Sound Therapy Enhances the Ability of Speech-in-Noise Perception and Pre-Perceptual Neurophysiological Response
Takashi Ishino, Kei Nakagawa, Fumiko Higashikawa, Sakura Hirokane, Rikuto Fujita, Chie Ishikawa, Tomohiro Kawasumi, Kota Takemoto, Takashi Oda, Manabu Nishida, Yuichiro Horibe, Nobuyuki Chikuie, Takayuki Taruya, Takao Hamamoto, Tsutomu Ueda, Louis Yuge, Sachio Takeno, Ramnarayan Ramachandran · 2024
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Hearing therapy usually amplifies the sounds a patient can no longer catch, but Takashi Ishino and co-authors test therapy built on clear, intelligible sound instead, in a 2024 study. Their patients were 40 Japanese adults with hearing loss, average age about 68, split between the new therapy and a non-intelligible sound control.
Both groups listened to music for an hour a day over the therapy period. Before and after, the team ran hearing questionnaires, gap detection, fast and noisy speech tests, tone and speech audiograms, and brain response measures. The intelligible-sound group improved its speech-in-noise perception, the skill that matters most in restaurants and crowds. Early brain responses tied to sound detection shifted as well. The authors present sound therapy as a trainable route to better hearing that works beside, not instead of, hearing aids.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Takashi Ishino, Kei Nakagawa, Fumiko Higashikawa, Sakura Hirokane, Rikuto Fujita, Chie Ishikawa, Tomohiro Kawasumi, Kota Takemoto, Takashi Oda, Manabu Nishida, Yuichiro Horibe, Nobuyuki Chikuie, Takayuki Taruya, Takao Hamamoto, Tsutomu Ueda, Louis Yuge, Sachio Takeno, Ramnarayan Ramachandran |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |