Mediators and Moderators of Auditory Training

This condition consists of an up/down spectral-temporal modulations (STM) presented both in quiet and with competing background noise

Participants will train on the identification of three sets of speech stimuli of increasing linguistic complexity: individual phonemes (vowels), spondaic words, and matrix sentences.

This condition involves both the STM and the speech training, described above, and an additional module training localization.

"This uses auditory training within a game experience where players control a game avatar (the wisp) that appears to fly through a landscape. Players were asked to help the wisp avoid obstacles or choose from among options based on a variety of sound cues."

This adds a component to the game where participants navigate the wisp to the location on the screen that relates to the target stimulus. The concept here is that searching for targets with manual movements, ecologically stimulates sensori-motor loops where the actions of the participants generates the auditory stimuli that are heard.