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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Listening Effort"”.
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The Autonomic Correlates of Listening Effort
For those with hearing impairment, listening in daily life communication requires significant mental effort, even when using a hearing aid. This increased daily effort causes fatigue and reduced well-being. In recent years, researchers have utilised physiological measures to quantify listening …
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Effects of Aging on Behavioral Measures of Listening Effort
… Growing evidence suggests that cognitive effort is a significant factor in speech understanding in noise. Although hearing loss is commonly experienced by older adults, according to prevalence estimates, about 4 in 10 adults age 65 and over will have impaired hearing. Older adults also …
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Age-Related Changes in Listening Effort for Various Types of Masker Noises
… others suggest that older listeners may perceive listening in noise as difficult and effortful because it requires them to exert more cognitive resources (Desjardins et. al., 2009). The purpose of the present study was to directly evaluate the relationship between cognitive function, listening …
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A Neurophysiological Investigation of Listening Effort in Normal Hearing Adults Using fNIRS and Pupillometry
… message, causing listeners to exert more effort to understand speech. Previous research has demonstrated that when listening to speech becomes difficult, various regions of the brain are recruited beyond those which engage during optimal listening conditions. However, the neural correlates …
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Development of Realistic Stimuli for the Evaluation of Listening Effort using Auditory Evoked Potentials
… speech in background noise, such as when listening in a restaurant. A common complaint of difficulty perceiving speech in noisy restaurants leads to the development of the present study, where audio recordings of connected discourse mixed with restaurant noise at different signal-to-noise …
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Noise reduction schemes for digital hearing aids and their use for the hearing impaired
… obvious benefits are reductions in the mental effort needed to listen to speech in noise. To assess this feature, a listening effort test is developed. For further subjective quality assessment of the algorithms, the method of paired comparisons in combination with the Bradley-Terry scaling …
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACOUSTIC FEATURES OF SECOND LANGUAGE SPEECH AND LISTENER EVALUATION OF SPEECH QUALITY
… such that listeners must expend considerable effort in order to understand it. One reason for this increased difficulty may simply be the speaker’s pronunciation accuracy or phonetic intelligibility. If a L2 speaker’s pronunciations of English sounds differ sufficiently from the sounds that …
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Exploring the impact of dysphonia and background noise on elementary school children's listening comprehension and cognitive effort: a study of subjective and objective measures
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Factors affecting speech recognition in noise and hearing loss in adults with a wide variety of auditory capabilities
… cognition and subjective<br/>measures like listening effort and self-report of hearing disability. Performance tests involved<br/>presentation of sounds via circum-aural earphones to one or both ears, as required, at intensities<br/>matched to individual hearing impairments to ensure …