Auditory, Lexical, and Multitasking Demands Interactively Impact Listening Effort

CONCLUSIONS: This work reveals that variability across speech stimuli can influence the sensitivity of the dual-task paradigm for detecting changes in listening effort. In line with previous work, the results of this study also suggest that higher cognitive demands may limit the ability to detect expected effects of SNR on measures of effort. With implications for real-world listening, these findings highlight that even relatively minor changes in lexical and multitasking demands can alter the effort devoted to listening in noise.PMID:37672797 | DOI:10.1044/2023_JSLHR-22-00548

Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - September 6, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Stefanie E Kuchinsky Niki Razeghi Nick B Pand ža Source Type: research