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Pupillometry Reveals That Context Benefit in Speech Perception Can Be Disrupted by Later-Occurring Sounds, Especially in Listeners With Cochlear Implants.
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- Decoupling speech processing from time.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2026Review
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- The cingulate cortex facilitates auditory perception under challenging listening conditions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Cochlear-implant dichotic listening performance and effort are disrupted with functional ear asymmetry.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2025Article
- Sensory modality and information domain contribute jointly to dual-task interference between working memory and perceptual processing.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Divergent effects of listening demands and evaluative threat on listening effort in online and laboratory settings.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Eye Movements Decrease during Effortful Speech Listening.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Pupil Dilation and Microsaccades Provide Complementary Insights into the Dynamics of Arousal and Instantaneous Attention during Effortful Listening.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Time Scales and Moments of Listening Effort Revealed in Pupillometry.Seminars in hearing · 2023Review
- Pupillometry to Assess Auditory Sensation in Guinea Pigs.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2023Article
- Exploring neurocognitive factors and brain activation in adult cochlear implant recipients associated with speech perception outcomes-A scoping review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Speech recognition in noise task among children and young-adults: a pupillometry study.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Identifying Listeners Whose Speech Intelligibility Depends on a Quiet Extra Moment After a Sentence.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2022Article
- Effortful Listening Despite Correct Responses: The Cost of Mental Repair in Sentence Recognition by Listeners With Cochlear Implants.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2022Article
- Comparing methods of analysis in pupillometry: application to the assessment of listening effort in hearing-impaired patients.Heliyon · 2022Article
- Publication guidelines and recommendations for pupillary measurement in psychophysiological studies.Psychophysiology · 2022Article
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- The effect of aging on context use and reliance on context in speech: A behavioral experiment with Repeat-Recall Test.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Contextual cues can be used to improve speech recognition, especially for people with hearing impairment. However, previous work has suggested that when the auditory signal is degraded, context might be used more slowly than when the signal is clear. This potentially puts the hearing-impaired listener in a dilemma of continuing to process the last sentence when the next sentence has already begun. This study measured the time course of the benefit of context using pupillary responses to high- and low-context sentences that were followed by silence or various auditory distractors (babble noise, ignored digits, or attended digits). Participants were listeners with cochlear implants or normal hearing using a 12-channel noise vocoder. Context-related differences in pupil dilation were greater for normal hearing than for cochlear implant listeners, even when scaled for differences in pupil reactivity. The benefit of context was systematically reduced for both groups by the presence of the later-occurring sounds, including virtually complete negation when sentences were followed by another attended utterance. These results challenge how we interpret the benefit of context in experiments that present just one utterance at a time. If a listener uses context to "repair" part of a sentence, and later-occurring auditory stimuli interfere with that repair process, the benefit of context might not survive outside the idealized laboratory or clinical environment. Elevated listening effort in hearing-impaired listeners might therefore result not just from poor auditory encoding but also inefficient use of context and prolonged processing of misperceived utterances competing with perception of incoming speech.
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