RECRUITINGINTERVENTIONAL
Assessing Perceptual Effects of Interactive Tasks
About This Trial
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.
Who May Be Eligible (Plain English)
Who May Qualify:
- 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.
Who Should NOT Join This Trial:
- None - if volunteer meets the inclusion criteria, then they will be enrolled
Always talk to your doctor about whether this trial is right for you.
Original Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria:
* 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.
Exclusion Criteria:
* None - if volunteer meets the inclusion criteria, then they will be enrolled
Treatments Being Tested
BEHAVIORAL
Listener judgements of speech produced in different tasks
Listeners will hear recorded speech of PALS and age-matched speakers across interactive and non-interactive tasks and indicate what they heard by clicking one of four words displayed on the screen. Standard attention checks and minimum performance thresholds (Theodore, 2021) will be used to ensure that listeners are engaged and are able to provide meaningful perceptual judgments.
Locations (1)
Speech Core, Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania, United States