Competitive Advantages:
Enhances auditory perception during daily activities, Promotes comfort and reduces distraction, Reduced background noise.
A device and method that supplements sensory input, thereby providing a supplemented sensory environment, to induce plasticity within the central nervous system that effectively overcomes sensory-neural processing deficits or strengthens specific sensory-neural abilities. In one implementation, ear-level hearing devices are used to deliver therapeutic sound with specific acoustic features that serve as archetypes of stimulus features for which sensory-neural processing is compromised by a sensory-neural deficit.Scientists at USF have developed an active sound therapy using specific therapeutic sounds which alter the way the central nervous system (CNS) encodes, processes or weights incoming sensory information. It supplements the sensory environment by providing an enriched sensory experience that induces plasticity within the CNS, and effectively overcomes the associated sensory neural processing deficits. This technology presents a novel methodology for overcoming perceptual auditory deficits by chronically supplementing the sensory experience with important but unnoticeable stimuli. Thus, active sound therapy provides an effective treatment for hearing loss.
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