U.S., Aug. 15 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07765186) titled 'Spatial Cues, Task Demands, and Auditory Selective Attention' on Aug. 10.
Brief Summary: Understanding speech in restaurants and other noisy environments is the most common complaint from the more than 60 million Americans with hearing impairment. Succeeding in such environments requires a listener to first segregate sound sources and then selectively attend to the source of interest. This study examines how individual auditory spatial cues (interaural time differences and interaural level differences) support spatial selective attention, the cortical processes that underlie this ability, and how these processes are modulated by tas...