Schweinberger Stefan R, von Eiff Celina I
Voice Research Unit, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.
Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.
Front Neurosci. 2022 Aug 25;16:956917. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.956917. eCollection 2022.
The use of digitally modified stimuli with enhanced diagnostic information to improve verbal communication in children with sensory or central handicaps was pioneered by Tallal and colleagues in 1996, who targeted speech comprehension in language-learning impaired children. Today, researchers are aware that successful communication cannot be reduced to linguistic information-it depends strongly on the quality of communication, including non-verbal socio-emotional communication. In children with cochlear implants (CIs), quality of life (QoL) is affected, but this can be related to the ability to recognize emotions in a voice rather than speech comprehension alone. In this manuscript, we describe a family of new methods, termed . We propose that these provide novel perspectives for assessing sensory determinants of human communication, but also for enhancing socio-emotional communication and QoL in the context of sensory handicaps, via training with digitally enhanced, caricatured stimuli. Based on promising initial results with various target groups including people with age-related macular degeneration, people with low abilities to recognize faces, older people, and adult CI users, we discuss chances and challenges for perceptual training interventions for young CI users based on enhanced auditory stimuli, as well as perspectives for CI sound processing technology.
1996年，塔拉尔及其同事率先使用具有增强诊断信息的数字修改刺激来改善有感觉或中枢障碍儿童的言语交流，他们的目标是提高语言学习受损儿童的言语理解能力。如今，研究人员意识到，成功的交流不能简单归结为语言信息——它很大程度上取决于交流的质量，包括非言语的社会情感交流。对于接受人工耳蜗植入（CI）的儿童，生活质量（QoL）会受到影响，但这可能与识别语音中情感的能力有关，而不仅仅是言语理解能力。在本手稿中，我们描述了一系列称为……的新方法。我们认为，这些方法不仅为评估人类交流的感觉决定因素提供了新视角，还通过使用数字增强的漫画化刺激进行训练，为在感觉障碍背景下增强社会情感交流和生活质量提供了新视角。基于对包括年龄相关性黄斑变性患者、面部识别能力低的人、老年人以及成年人工耳蜗使用者在内的各种目标群体取得的初步良好结果，我们讨论了基于增强听觉刺激对年轻人工耳蜗使用者进行感知训练干预的机遇和挑战，以及人工耳蜗声音处理技术的前景。
