scholarly journals The Effects of Listening Conditions on Sentence Judgement and Listening Effort in School-Aged Children with Bilateral Cochlear Implants in a Dual-Task Paradigm

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 764-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youngmee Lee ◽  
Hyun Sub Sim
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Dual Task ◽  
Listening Effort ◽  
Bilateral Cochlear Implants ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Dual Task Paradigm

Listening Effort in Native and Nonnative English-Speaking Children Using Low Linguistic Single- and Dual-Task Paradigms

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 1979-1989
Author(s):  
Ilze Oosthuizen ◽  
Erin M. Picou ◽  
Lidia Pottas ◽  
Hermanus Carel Myburgh ◽  
De Wet Swanepoel
Keyword(s):  
Dual Task ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Listening Effort ◽  
Language Background ◽  
Speech Stimuli ◽  
Monitoring Task ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Dual Task Paradigm ◽  
Recognition And Response

Purpose It is not clear if behavioral indices of listening effort are sensitive to changes in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for young children (7–12 years old) from multilingual backgrounds. The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of SNR on listening effort in multilingual school-aged children (native English, nonnative English) as measured with a single- and a dual-task paradigm with low-linguistic speech stimuli (digits). The study also aimed to explore age effects on digit triplet recognition and response times (RTs). Method Sixty children with normal hearing participated, 30 per language group. Participants completed single and dual tasks in three SNRs (quiet, −10 dB, and −15 dB). Speech stimuli for both tasks were digit triplets. Verbal RTs were the listening effort measure during the single-task paradigm. A visual monitoring task was the secondary task during the dual-task paradigm. Results Significant effects of SNR on RTs were evident during both single- and dual-task paradigms. As expected, language background did not affect the pattern of RTs. The data also demonstrate a maturation effect for triplet recognition during both tasks and for RTs during the dual-task only. Conclusions Both single- and dual-task paradigms were sensitive to changes in SNR for school-aged children between 7 and 12 years of age. Language background (English as native language vs. English as nonnative language) had no significant effect on triplet recognition or RTs, demonstrating practical utility of low-linguistic stimuli for testing children from multilingual backgrounds.

Listening Effort Measured Using a Dual-task Paradigm in Adults With Different Amounts of Noise Exposure

2021 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofie Degeest ◽  
Katrien Kestens ◽  
Hannah Keppler
Keyword(s):  
Dual Task ◽  
Noise Exposure ◽  
Listening Effort ◽  
Dual Task Paradigm

scholarly journals Behavioral Assessment of Listening Effort Using a Dual-Task Paradigm

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 233121651668728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Gagné ◽  
Jana Besser ◽  
Ulrike Lemke
Keyword(s):  
Dual Task ◽  
Behavioral Assessment ◽  
Listening Effort ◽  
Dual Task Paradigm

Three School-aged Children with Bilateral Cochlear Implants Operated on Six Years after Early Initial Implantation

2015 ◽  
Vol 141 (0) ◽  
pp. 6-7
Author(s):  
Atsushi Kawano ◽  
Nobuhiro Nishiyama ◽  
Sachie Kawaguchi ◽  
Kyoko Shirai ◽  
Mamoru Suzuki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Bilateral Cochlear Implants ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Initial Implantation

scholarly journals About face: Seeing the talker improves spoken word recognition but increases listening effort

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Violet Aurora Brown ◽  
Julia Feld Strand
Keyword(s):  
Dual Task ◽  
Speech Processing ◽  
Background Noise ◽  
Spoken Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Audiovisual Speech ◽  
Visual Modality ◽  
Auditory Modality ◽  
Listening Effort ◽  
Dual Task Paradigm

It is widely accepted that seeing a talker improves a listener’s ability to understand what a talker is saying in background noise (e.g., Erber, 1969; Sumby & Pollack, 1954). The literature is mixed, however, regarding the influence of the visual modality on the listening effort required to recognize speech (e.g., Fraser, Gagné, Alepins, & Dubois, 2010; Sommers & Phelps, 2016). Here, we present data showing that even when the visual modality robustly benefits recognition, processing audiovisual speech can still result in greater cognitive load than processing speech in the auditory modality alone. We show using a dual-task paradigm that the costs associated with audiovisual speech processing are more pronounced in easy listening conditions, in which speech can be recognized at high rates in the auditory modality alone—indeed, effort did not differ between audiovisual and audio-only conditions when the background noise was presented at a more difficult level. Further, we show that though these effects replicate with different stimuli and participants, they do not emerge when effort is assessed with a recall paradigm rather than a dual-task paradigm. Together, these results suggest that the widely cited audiovisual recognition benefit may come at a cost under more favorable listening conditions, and add to the growing body of research suggesting that various measures of effort may not be tapping into the same underlying construct (Strand et al., 2018).

scholarly journals A Dutch version of a dual-task paradigm for measuring listening effort: a pilot study regarding its short-term test-retest reliability

B-ENT ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-144
Author(s):  
Sofie Degeest ◽  
◽  
Paul Corthals ◽  
Hannah Keppler ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Dual Task ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Dutch Version ◽  
Listening Effort ◽  
Retest Reliability ◽  
Short Term Test ◽  
Dual Task Paradigm ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

Listening effort in bilateral cochlear implants and bimodal hearing

2014 ◽  
Vol 135 (4) ◽  
pp. 2390-2390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Fitzgerald ◽  
Katelyn Glassman ◽  
Sapna Mehta ◽  
Keena Seward ◽  
Arlene Neuman
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Listening Effort ◽  
Bilateral Cochlear Implants ◽  
Bimodal Hearing

scholarly journals Rapid adaptation to fully intelligible nonnative-accented speech reduces listening effort

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (9) ◽  
pp. 1431-1443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Violet A Brown ◽  
Drew J McLaughlin ◽  
Julia F Strand ◽  
Kristin J Van Engen
Keyword(s):  
Dual Task ◽  
Speech Intelligibility ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Perceptual Adaptation ◽  
Listening Effort ◽  
Lexical Representations ◽  
Accented Speech ◽  
Weak Evidence ◽  
Processing Cost ◽  
Dual Task Paradigm

In noisy settings or when listening to an unfamiliar talker or accent, it can be difficult to understand spoken language. This difficulty typically results in reductions in speech intelligibility, but may also increase the effort necessary to process the speech even when intelligibility is unaffected. In this study, we used a dual-task paradigm and pupillometry to assess the cognitive costs associated with processing fully intelligible accented speech, predicting that rapid perceptual adaptation to an accent would result in decreased listening effort over time. The behavioural and physiological paradigms provided converging evidence that listeners expend greater effort when processing nonnative- relative to native-accented speech, and both experiments also revealed an overall reduction in listening effort over the course of the experiment. Only the pupillometry experiment, however, revealed greater adaptation to nonnative- relative to native-accented speech. An exploratory analysis of the dual-task data that attempted to minimise practice effects revealed weak evidence for greater adaptation to the nonnative accent. These results suggest that even when speech is fully intelligible, resolving deviations between the acoustic input and stored lexical representations incurs a processing cost, and adaptation may attenuate this cost.

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