Patent ID: 6302697
Filing Date: 2001-10-16
Classification: G09B,G10L,G11B,H04R

Abstract:
In a computer system having an input device, and a sound generator, a method for training a user in more than one session to discriminate between two sound stimuli, the method comprising:providing to the user, by the sound generator, a series of presentations of the two sound stimuli, the two sound stimuli separated from each other by an inter-stimulus interval (ISI);receiving by the input device, as the series of presentations is provided, user inputs, wherein each of the user inputs is responsive to a presentation in the series, and wherein each of the user inputs indicates the user's ability to discriminate between the two sound stimuli; anddecreasing, by the computer system, the ISI between the two sound stimuli in the presentations as the user correctly discriminates between the two sound stimuli.