Auditory Perceptual Development During Adolescence

描述（由申请人提供）：我的长期目标是了解青春期基本听觉任务表现的潜在发展变化机制。本申请目前的目标是映射在青少年时期的天真的性能和训练诱导的学习模式的发展变化，在两个措施的个人表现：平均性能和性能的一致性。具体的目的是建立（1）天真的青少年和（2）受过训练的青少年的平均性能和性能的一致性的发展变化之间的关系。这些目标将通过收集青少年（11和14岁）和成人（18-21岁）的平均表现和表现一致性的天真数据，并通过为这些听众的子集提供两个基本听觉任务中的每一个的多小时培训来实现。拟议研究的结果将使我们能够更好地表征正常和无序的知觉发展，并导致创建更有效的知觉训练计划，以优化正常能力或治疗沟通障碍。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): 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.