My long-term goal is to understand the mechanisms underlying developmental changes in performance on basic auditory tasks through adolescence. The current objective of this application is to map developmental changes in both naive performance and training-induced learning patterns during adolescence in terms of two measures of individual performance: average performance and performance consistency.
The specific aims are to establish the relationship between developmental changes in average performance and performance consistency in (1) naive adolescents and (2) trained adolescents.
These aims will be pursued by collecting na?ve data on average performance and performance consistency from adolescents (11 and 14 years of age) and adults (18-21 years of age) and by providing multi-hour training to a subset of these listeners on each of two basic auditory tasks. The outcomes of the proposed studies will enable us to better characterize normal and disordered perceptual development and lead to the creation of more effective perceptual training programs for optimizing normal capacities or treating communication disorders. ? ? ?

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Type
Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31)
Project #
5F31DC008250-02
Application #
7214626
Study Section
Communication Disorders Review Committee (CDRC)
Program Officer
Cyr, Janet
Project Start
2006-04-01
Project End
2008-03-31
Budget Start
2007-04-01
Budget End
2008-03-31
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
2007
Total Cost
$30,283
Indirect Cost
Name
Northwestern University at Chicago
Department
Other Health Professions
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
160079455
City
Evanston
State
IL
Country
United States
Zip Code
60201
Huyck, Julia Jones; Wright, Beverly A (2013) Learning, worsening, and generalization in response to auditory perceptual training during adolescence. J Acoust Soc Am 134:1172-82
Huyck, Julia Jones; Wright, Beverly A (2011) Late maturation of auditory perceptual learning. Dev Sci 14:614-21