Assessing Perceptual Effects of Interactive Tasks
Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY
In this study, we will evaluate how solo, naive listeners perceive the speech of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and age-matched speakers produced across interactive and non-interactive contexts with an unfamiliar, naive interlocutor.
Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Maximum Age: 65
Healthy Volunteers: t
View:
• passing the remote hearing screening
• having no known speech, language or neurological disorders per self-report
• being a native monolingual speaker of American English
• having no experience communicating with people with dysarthria
• being between the ages of 18 and 65.
Locations
United States
Pennsylvania
Speech Core, Pennsylvania State University
RECRUITING
University Park
Contact Information
Primary
Anne Olmstead, Ph.D.
ajo150@psu.edu
814-867-3373
Time Frame
Start Date: 2025-10-17
Estimated Completion Date: 2029-02-28
Participants
Target number of participants: 1300
Treatments
Experimental: Listener Perception of Speech Produced in Different Task Settings
Listeners will hear recorded speech of PALS and age-matched speakers produced within interactive and non-interactive contexts and indicate what they heard.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Collaborators: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Leads: Penn State University