PERSISTENCE OF TRAINING EFFECTS NOTED IN THE LISTEN STUDY,
Abstract
The present study was designed to retest the sub jects who appeared in the Listen Study (Cunning ham, Moler, Sheld63). At issue was the degree to which auditory discrimination training effects noted in the earlier study had presisted, and whether the differently trained groups who achieved superior scores in the first study would also achieve superior scores eight months later. Results indicated: (1) that all subjects had lost some ability to discriminate signals masked by noise after eight months; (2) that most sub jects achieved significantly higher auditory discrimination scores than they had achieved be fore training in the earlier study; and (3) that the decline in masked signal detection ability, although general to all subjects, was parallel to score differences achieved by the six training groups in the Listen Study; groups scoring highest in the Listen Study tended to score highest in the present study. The following report discusses present findings in relation to: (1) the degree of decline in detection ability; and (2) the relationship between the decline of discrimination ability and the nature of the earlier training given subjects. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 12, 1963
- Accession Number
- AD0410790
Entities
People
- R.p. Cunningham
Organizations
- System Development Corporation