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Age-Related Difficulty of Listening Effort in Elderly [PDF]

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
The present study identifies the combined effects of aging and listening environment related factors, such as directionality, types of stimuli, and the presence of background noise. A total of 50 listeners with normal hearing (25 older adults and 25 young adults) participated in a series of tasks.
Chanbeom Kwak, Woojae Han, Han Woojae
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Moderate Reverberation Does Not Increase Subjective Fatigue, Subjective Listening Effort, or Behavioral Listening Effort in School-Aged Children

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Background noise and reverberation levels in typical classrooms have negative effects on speech recognition, but their effects on listening effort and fatigue are less well understood.
Benjamin Hornsby, Steven C Marcrum, Todd Ricketts   +2 more
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Spatial separation enhances speech intelligibility but increases listening effort with session-dependent variability in pupillometric measures [PDF]

Frontiers in Neuroscience
IntroductionThe current understanding of the cognitive load of listening effort has been advanced by combining speech intelligibility and pupillometry measures.
Tanvi Thakkar, Tanvi Thakkar, Jarett Knoepker, Stephen R. Dennison, Joseph P. Roche, Joseph P. Roche, Ruth Y. Litovsky, Ruth Y. Litovsky   +7 more
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Sensory representations and pupil-indexed listening effort provide complementary contributions to multi-talker speech intelligibility [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Multi-talker speech intelligibility requires successful separation of the target speech from background speech. Successful speech segregation relies on bottom-up neural coding fidelity of sensory information and top-down effortful listening.
Jacie R. McHaney, Kenneth E. Hancock, Daniel B. Polley, Aravindakshan Parthasarathy   +3 more
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Objective Assessment of Listening Effort: Coregistration of Pupillometry and EEG

Trends in Hearing, 2017
Listening to speech in noise is effortful, particularly for people with hearing impairment. While it is known that effort is related to a complex interplay between bottom-up and top-down processes, the cognitive and neurophysiological mechanisms ...
Isabelle Boisvert, Catherine Mcmahon, Kelly Miles   +2 more
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Listening to two-talker conversations in quiet settings: the role of listeners’ cognitive processing capabilities for memory and listening effort [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Listening to conversing talkers in quiet environments and remembering the content is a common activity. However, research on the cognitive demands involved is limited.
Chinthusa Mohanathasan, Janina Fels, Sabine J. Schlittmeier   +2 more
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Exploring short-term memory and listening effort in two-talker conversations: The influence of soft and moderate background noise. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Listening to conversations and remembering their content is a highly demanding task, especially in noisy environments. Previous research has mainly focused on short-term memory using simple cognitive tasks with unrelated words or digits.
Chinthusa Mohanathasan, Cosima A Ermert, Janina Fels, Torsten W Kuhlen, Sabine J Schlittmeier   +4 more
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Acoustically Transparent Hearing Aids Increase Physiological Markers of Listening Effort [PDF]

Trends in Hearing
While hearing aids are beneficial in compensating for hearing loss and suppressing ambient noise, they may also introduce an unwanted processing burden to the listener's sensory and cognitive system. To investigate such adverse side effects, hearing aids
Markus Kemper, Florian Denk, Hendrik Husstedt, Jonas Obleser   +3 more
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A Clinical Paradigm for Listening Effort Assessment in Middle-Aged Listeners [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Listening effort (LE) has been known to characterize speech recognition in noise regardless of hearing sensitivity and age. Whereas the behavioral measure of dual-task paradigm effectively manifests the cognitive cost that listeners exert when processing speech in background noise, there is no consensus as to a clinical procedure that might best ...
Ricky Kaplan Neeman, Ricky Kaplan Neeman, Ilan Roziner, Chava Muchnik, Chava Muchnik   +4 more
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Speech recognition in noise task among children and young-adults: a pupillometry study

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionChildren experience unique challenges when listening to speech in noisy environments. The present study used pupillometry, an established method for quantifying listening and cognitive effort, to detect temporal changes in pupil dilation ...
Avital Trau-Margalit, Leah Fostick, Tami Harel-Arbeli, Tami Harel-Arbeli, Rachel Nissanholtz-Gannot, Riki Taitelbaum-Swead, Riki Taitelbaum-Swead   +6 more
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