Assessing Perceptual Effects of Interactive Tasks

NCT ID: NCT06828523

Last Updated: 2026-02-12

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

1300 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2025-10-17

Study Completion Date

2029-02-28

Brief Summary

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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.

Detailed Description

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Listeners will hear recorded speech of PALS and age-matched speakers and indicate what they heard. Recorded speech consists of vowels and consonants produced in non-interactive and interactive tasks. The perceptual judgements will be compared to see whether interactive contexts have similar perceptual effects across the two groups.

Plans for Assignment - This is a single group study in which all participants will engage in the same tasks.

Delivery of Intervention: Solo listeners will participate in this study in a remote, asynchronous format. They will be recruited using the online participant recruitment platform Prolific © and will use their own laptop/computer and headphones.

Adequacy of Sample size: We will use n = 1300 listeners to achieve 80% power at alpha of .05 to detect between group differences with the assumption of medium effect sizes (Cohen's f = 0.3).

Adequacy of Analyses: The proposed statistical analyses (Generalized mixed effects regressions) are standard and will be used to analyze the effect of the intervention on the outcome measures described below.

Conditions

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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Listeners will hear recorded speech of PALS and age-matched speakers and indicate what they heard. Recorded speech consists of vowels and consonants produced in non-interactive and interactive tasks. The perceptual judgements will be compared to see whether interactive contexts have similar perceptual effects across the two groups.

Plans for Assignment - This is a single group study in which all participants will engage in the same tasks.
Primary Study Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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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.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Listener judgements of speech produced in different tasks

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

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.

Interventions

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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.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

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.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

Penn State University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Ji Min Lee, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Jimin Lee, Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

The Pennsylvania State University

Navin Viswanathan, Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

The Pennsylvania State University

Anne Olmstead, Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

The Pennsylvania State University

Locations

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Speech Core, Pennsylvania State University

University Park, Pennsylvania, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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United States

Central Contacts

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Anne Olmstead, Ph.D.

Role: CONTACT

814-867-3373

Facility Contacts

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Jimin Lee, Ph.D.

Role: primary

814-867-3373

References

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Olmstead, A. J., Viswanathan, N., Cowan, T., & Yang, K. (2021). Phonetic adaptation in interlocutors with mismatched language backgrounds: A case for a phonetic synergy account. Journal of Phonetics, 87, 101054. . : . .

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Olmstead AJ, Lee J, Viswanathan N. The Role of the Speaker, the Listener, and Their Joint Contributions During Communicative Interactions: A Tripartite View of Intelligibility in Individuals With Dysarthria. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2020 Apr 27;63(4):1106-1114. doi: 10.1044/2020_JSLHR-19-00233. Epub 2020 Apr 17.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 32302251 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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R01DC021714

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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STUDY00024154-2

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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