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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Cynthia R. R. Hunter, Hayk Abrahamyan
Summary: The aim of this study was to assess the sensitivity, reliability, and convergent validity of objective measures of listening effort collected in a sequential dual-task. The results indicated that these objective measures are sensitive and reliable indices of listening effort, which are non-redundant with speech intelligibility and have strong within-participants convergent validity.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AUDIOLOGY
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Khaled H. A. Abdel-Latif, Hartmut Meister
Summary: The study compared speech recognition and listening effort in cochlear implant recipients and normal-hearing listeners. The results showed that there was no significant difference in listening effort between the two groups when considering the same performance level. However, there were large individual differences in listening effort. The study discusses the potential clinical implications of using listening effort as an outcome measure for hearing rehabilitation.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Karl J. Friston, Noor Sajid, David Ricardo Quiroga-Martinez, Thomas Parr, Cathy J. Price, Emma Holmes
Summary: This paper introduces active listening, a unified framework for synthesising and recognising speech. The notion of active listening inherits from active inference, considering perception and action under one universal imperative: to maximize the evidence for our generative models of the world. The 'active' aspect involves covertly segmenting spoken sentences and casting speech segmentation as the selection of internal actions to maximize evidence for an internal model.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Ricky Kaplan Neeman, Ilan Roziner, Chava Muchnik
Summary: Listening effort is an important characteristic of speech recognition in noise, regardless of hearing sensitivity and age. Currently, there is no consensus on a clinical procedure that can best measure listening effort. This study developed a feasible clinical paradigm using a dual-task paradigm to assess listening effort in middle-aged adults. The results showed that both middle-aged and young adults exhibited listening effort, but it was more pronounced in the middle-aged group. The dual-task paradigm successfully demonstrated different manifestations of listening effort in middle-aged adults compared to young adults, suggesting its potential clinical usefulness.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Sofie Degeest, Katrien Kestens, Hannah Keppler
Summary: This study aims to evaluate the effects of noise exposure on hearing and listening effort. The findings suggest that individuals with high noise exposure exert more listening effort compared to those with low and moderate noise exposure. However, there were no significant differences in hearing thresholds and speech recognition among different noise exposure groups. Therefore, assessing listening effort is crucial for individuals exposed to noise.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yue Zhang, Alexandre Lehmann, Mickael Deroche
Summary: Recent research has shown that pupillometry is effective in quantifying listening effort. However, interpreting pupillary responses in listening situations involving multiple cognitive functions at once is challenging. Additionally, it was found that task-evoked pupillary response differs significantly in complex listening conditions.
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Samantha J. Gustafson, Loren Nelson, Jack W. Silcox
Summary: This study examined the effect of distraction on speech recognition and listening effort, and assessed the impact of distraction on resource allocation during listening. The results showed that distraction significantly reduced speech recognition in low-perceptual load conditions (i.e., quiet), but had no effect in high-perceptual load conditions (i.e., noise). In terms of listening effort, distraction resulted in longer response times regardless of listening condition.
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Saskia Ibelings, Thomas Brand, Inga Holube
Summary: This study investigates the use of a Text-To-Speech (TTS) system in reducing the time and effort of developing speech-recognition tests. The results show that the synthesized speech has improved speech-recognition threshold compared to natural speech, but no difference in listening effort. This finding suggests the potential for new speech tests with a large amount of speech material using TTS systems.
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Thomas Koelewijn, Adriana A. Zekveld, Thomas Lunner, Sophia E. Kramer
Summary: Higher monetary reward leads to increased pupil dilation during listening, but does not improve speech reception. Task difficulty influences speech reception threshold and sentence recognition, but reward does not have a significant effect. Contrary to previous results, peak pupil dilation does not reflect the effects of reward.
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Marta Maria Gorecka, Olena Vasylenko, Knut Waterloo, Claudia Rodriguez-Aranda
Summary: This study investigated the relationship between attentional impairments, hearing loss, and gait disturbances in individuals with amnestic type of MCI. The results showed compromised gait parameters, particularly increased gait variability, in aMCI participants during lateralized attentional control. Asymmetric gait effects were primarily observed in healthy older controls, highlighting the differences in gait characteristics between healthy older adults and aMCI individuals.
FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Jacob Feldman, Emily Thompson, Hilary Davis, Bahar Keceli-Kaysili, Kacie Dunham, Tiffany Woynaroski, Anne Marie Tharpe, Erin M. Picou
Summary: This study examined the effects of remote microphone (RM) systems on listening-in-noise performance in youth with autism. The results showed that the use of RM systems improved listening-in-noise accuracy, although it also increased listening effort for some participants. These findings have important implications for improving listening-in-noise performance in some youth with autism.
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Cynthia R. Hunter
Summary: Predictable sentence contexts reduce listening effort, while high cognitive load slows down word identification and digit recall. Working memory and vocabulary do not correlate with the sentence context benefit in word recognition or digit recall.
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Cynthia R. Hunter, Larry E. Humes
Summary: This study examines the effects of sentence context and cognitive load on listening effort in older adults. The results show that sentence context can reduce listening effort and improve speech intelligibility. However, cognitive load decreases the availability of cognitive resources. The context benefit is related to vocabulary, but not working memory capacity.
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Acoustics
Viet Anh Trinh, Michael Mandel
Summary: The neural network acoustic model in ASR is more similar to human listeners in focusing on important regions, but it has not captured all the cues utilized by human listeners. Differences in important time-frequency regions correspond to differences in accuracy on specific words in a test sentence.
IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING
(2021)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Fei Tao, Carlos Busso
Summary: The study introduces a novel multitask learning audiovisual automatic speech recognition system that generalizes across conditions, improves performance, and solves two key speech tasks.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA
(2021)