EARLY EXPERIENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF HEARING

描述：（改编自申请人的摘要。）很多是 我们对成年人的听力了解甚少，但对 早期经历如何影响这些重要的能力 特别是 关于我们是如何感知复杂的 声音是正常注意力和沟通的重要组成部分。 这 研究量化了早期传导性听力损失对 听力发展。 这些研究利用了一个独特的人群， 人类患者的仔细心理声学或 感官实验，以及更多的综合或认知实验， 来发现我们是如何学会欣赏复杂的 声音. 将使用出生时具有最大传导性听力损失的患者， 在不同的年龄段进行手术矫正， 这些合作主体的“新”耳朵将被使用。假设， 听力的不同方面（被称为 检测、干扰、辨别、双感觉整合，以及 属性）独立出现。 看来，早期 “剥夺”导致了一个有趣的缺陷，在感知 简单的图案 这些数据将提供新的、有凝聚力的 观察我们的感知是如何结构化和组织化的。 其结果将产生深远的影响 implications for the 理解和治疗听力和沟通障碍， 关于知觉障碍的一般理论

DESCRIPTION:(Adapted From The Applicant's Abstract.) A great deal is known about the hearing of mature humans, but relatively little about how early experience affects these important abilities. In particular little is known about how we come to perceive patterns in complex sounds, an essential part of normal attention and communication. This research quantifies the roles of early conductive hearing loss on hearing development. The studies take advantage of a unique population of human patients in a combination of careful psychoacoustical or sensory experiments, and more integrative or cognitive experiments, to discover how we learn to appreciate relevant patterns in complex sounds. Patients born with a maximum conductive hearing loss will be used which is surgically corrected at different ages and binaural processing in the "new" ear of these cooperative subjects will be used. The hypothesis to be evaluated is that different aspects of hearing (termed detections, distractions, discriminations, bisensory integration,and attributes) emerge independently. It appears that the early "deprivation" leads to an interesting deficit in the perception of simple patterns. The data will provide new and cohesive observations on how our perceptions become structured and organized. The results will have far-reaching implications for the understanding and treatment of hearing and communication disorders and for general theories of perceptual disorders.