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Individual Variations in Effort: Assessing Pupillometry for the Hearing Impaired.
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- Ambulatory autonomic nervous system activity in relation to hearing impairment.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- From pre-processing to advanced dynamic modeling of pupil data.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- Effects of cochlear implantation on cognitive decline in older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Time Scales and Moments of Listening Effort Revealed in Pupillometry.Seminars in hearing · 2023Review
- Impact of SNR, peripheral auditory sensitivity, and central cognitive profile on the psychometric relation between pupillary response and speech performance in CI users.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Listening effort and fatigue among cochlear implant users: a scoping review.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Comparing methods of analysis in pupillometry: application to the assessment of listening effort in hearing-impaired patients.Heliyon · 2022Article
- Relationship between Behavioral and Objective Measures of Sound Intensity in Normal-Hearing Listeners and Hearing-Aid Users: A Pilot Study.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Can cochlear implantation prevent cognitive decline in the long-term follow-up?Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Emerging Self-Representation Presents a Challenge When Perspectives Conflict.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2022Article
- Interaural speech asymmetry predicts bilateral speech intelligibility but not listening effort in adults with bilateral cochlear implants.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Listening Effort in Young Children with Cochlear Implants.Audiology research · 2021Article
- EEG power spectral dynamics associated with listening in adverse conditions.Psychophysiology · 2021Article
- Adult Users of the Oticon Medical Neuro Cochlear Implant System Benefit from Beamforming in the High Frequencies.Audiology research · 2021Article
- Expecting Questions Modulates Cognitive Effort in a Syntactic Processing Task: Evidence From Pupillometry.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2021Article
- Do Musicians and Non-musicians Differ in Speech-on-Speech Processing?Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Pupillometry Assessment of Speech Recognition and Listening Experience in Adult Cochlear Implant Patients.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- Anticipatory Baseline Pupil Diameter Is Sensitive to Differences in Hearing Thresholds.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Effect of Speech-to-Noise Ratio and Luminance on a Range of Current and Potential Pupil Response Measures to Assess Listening Effort.Trends in hearingArticle
- Assessment of Speech Processing and Listening Effort Associated With Speech-on-Speech Masking Using the Visual World Paradigm and Pupillometry.Trends in hearingArticle
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Abstract
Assessing effort in speech comprehension for hearing-impaired (HI) listeners is important, as effortful processing of speech can limit their hearing rehabilitation. We examined the measure of pupil dilation in its capacity to accommodate the heterogeneity that is present within clinical populations by studying lexical access in users with sensorineural hearing loss, who perceive speech via cochlear implants (CIs). We compared the pupillary responses of 15 experienced CI users and 14 age-matched normal-hearing (NH) controls during auditory lexical decision. A growth curve analysis was applied to compare the responses between the groups. NH listeners showed a coherent pattern of pupil dilation that reflects the task demands of the experimental manipulation and a homogenous time course of dilation. CI listeners showed more variability in the morphology of pupil dilation curves, potentially reflecting variable sources of effort across individuals. In follow-up analyses, we examined how speech perception, a task that relies on multiple stages of perceptual analyses, poses multiple sources of increased effort for HI listeners, wherefore we might not be measuring the same source of effort for HI as for NH listeners. We argue that interindividual variability among HI listeners can be clinically meaningful in attesting not only the magnitude but also the locus of increased effort. The understanding of individual variations in effort requires experimental paradigms that (a) differentiate the task demands during speech comprehension, (b) capture pupil dilation in its time course per individual listeners, and (c) investigate the range of individual variability present within clinical and NH populations.
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