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Backed by clinical research and peer-reviewed publishing
Amptify's auditory and cognitive training methods have been shown to develop speech perception skills, increase listening confidence, and enhance conversational fluency.
Enhances speech discrimination1,2
Leads to reduced perceptual effort during listening3
Increases listening confidence4
Enhances the hearing wellness experience4,5
A team dedicated to science
""I've spent my entire professional career studying how to make it possible for clinicians to provide evidence-based aural rehabilitation in a way that is both economically and practically feasible. Amptify is the synthesis of those efforts. Amptify completes the hearing healthcare journey --- after diagnostics and the hearing aid fitting, clinicians can now efficiently and easily provide aural rehabilitation with Amptify. And, people can get the complete hearing therapy they deserve."
"Professor Nancy Tye-Murray, Phd, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer
Amptify enhances speech discrimination
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine showed in a study with 69 participants who have hearing loss that just 12 hours of auditory training improved word discrimination scores by 14% 1. In a study of 93 participants, 88% believed that they had improved at least one aspect of spoken language comprehension (i.e., words, sentences, general meaning) 4. In a study with open-set sentence recognition, participants improved recognition of words by 5%. The researchers found that benefits of auditory training were maintained 3 months after training ended.8
Amptify reduces perceptual effort
Researchers used changes in recall for the three-back position in a modified n-back task as an index of changes in perceptual effort. Eighty-three hearing aid users completed 12 hours of auditory training on were able to remember slightly more than one additional item in three-back modified n-back task training as compared with before training. Cognitive psychologists consider improvement on the task as an index of decreased perceptual effort. A follow-up testing session found that participants maintained some gains in perceptual effort 3 months after the end of training.3
Amptify increases listening confidence
After completing 12 hours of auditory training, 93 participants were asked how much the training had improved their listening confidence. They responded on a Likert scale of 1 (very little) to 7 (very much). Participants rated their increase in confidence as approximately 4, which indicates significant improvement. Their rating of how much they enjoyed playing the games was 5.5
Amptify enhances the hearing healthcare experience
When asked what they liked best about a hearing wellness program that included twice-weekly contact with a hearing healthcare provider and auditory training, the three top responses were the auditory training games (34% of the responses), the sense of helping one’s self (25%), and regular contact with a hearing healthcare provider (19%),4
Amptify is supported by the principles of second-language learning and cognitive psychology
Principles of second-language learning and cognitive psychology have established the efficacy of acoustically varied presentation formats and meaning based stimuli.6
- Barcroft, J., Sommers, M. S., Tye-Murray, N., Mauzé, E., Schroy, C., & Spehar, B. (2011). Tailoring auditory brain training to patient needs with single and multiple talkers: Transfer-appropriate gains on a four-choice discrimination test. International Journal of Audiology, 50(11), 802-808.
- Barcroft, J., Spehar, B., Tye-Murray, N., & Sommers, M. (2016). Task-and talker-specific gains in auditory brain training. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 59(4), 862-870.
- Sommers, M. S., Tye-Murray, N., Barcroft, J., & Spehar, B. P. (2015, November). The Effects of Meaning-Based Auditory Brain Training on Behavioral Measures of Perceptual Effort in Individuals with Impaired Hearing. In Seminars in Hearing (Vol. 36, No. 04, pp. 263-272). Thieme Medical Publishers.
- Tye-Murray, N., Sommers, M. S., Mauzé, E., Schroy, C., Barcroft, J., & Spehar, B. (2012). Using patient perceptions of relative benefit and enjoyment to assess auditory brain training. J Am Acad Audiol, 23, 1-12.
- Tye-Murray, Nancy, et al. "Auditory training with frequent communication partners." Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 59.4 (2016): 871-875.
- Barcroft, J., Sommers, M. S., & Tye-Murray, N. (2007). What learning a second language might teach us about auditory brain training. Seminars in Hearing, 28, 150-160.
- Barcroft, J., Mauzé, E., Schroy, C., Tye-Murray, N., Sommers, M. S., & Spehar, B. (2011). Improving the quality of auditory brain training by making tasks meaningful. ASHA: Perspectives on Aural Rehabilitation and Its Instrumentation, 7, 115-128.
- Tye-Murray, N., Spehar, B., Barcroft, J., & Sommers, M. (2017). Auditory training for adults who have hearing loss: A comparison of spaced versus massed practice schedules. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60(8), 2337-2345.