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An exploratory Study of EEG Alpha Oscillation and Pupil Dilation in Hearing-Aid Users During Effortful listening to Continuous Speech.
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- Parietal Alpha-Band Connectivity Tracks Listening Effort in Hearing-Aid Users Under Competing Speech and Noise.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Article
- Signal-specific performance of in-ear EEG: strengths and limitations.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
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- Reduced listening effort with adaptive binaural beamforming in realistic noisy environments.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Neurophysiology of Effortful Listening: Decoupling Motivational Modulation from Task Demands.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Neurophysiological and Autonomic Dynamics of Threat Processing During Sustained Social Fear Generalization.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Changes in pupil size track self-control failure.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- Cortical encoding of phonetic onsets of both attended and ignored speech in hearing impaired individuals.PloS one · 2024Article
- Evaluating aperiodic and periodic neural activity as markers of listening effort in speech perception.Auditory perception & cognition · 2024Article
- Eye Movements Decrease during Effortful Speech Listening.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Energetic and informational masking place dissociable demands on listening effort: Evidence from simultaneous electroencephalography and pupillometrya).The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023Article
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Abstract
Individuals with hearing loss allocate cognitive resources to comprehend noisy speech in everyday life scenarios. Such a scenario could be when they are exposed to ongoing speech and need to sustain their attention for a rather long period of time, which requires listening effort. Two well-established physiological methods that have been found to be sensitive to identify changes in listening effort are pupillometry and electroencephalography (EEG). However, these measurements have been used mainly for momentary, evoked or episodic effort. The aim of this study was to investigate how sustained effort manifests in pupillometry and EEG, using continuous speech with varying signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Eight hearing-aid users participated in this exploratory study and performed a continuous speech-in-noise task. The speech material consisted of 30-second continuous streams that were presented from loudspeakers to the right and left side of the listener (±30° azimuth) in the presence of 4-talker background noise (+180° azimuth). The participants were instructed to attend either to the right or left speaker and ignore the other in a randomized order with two different SNR conditions: 0 dB and -5 dB (the difference between the target and the competing talker). The effects of SNR on listening effort were explored objectively using pupillometry and EEG. The results showed larger mean pupil dilation and decreased EEG alpha power in the parietal lobe during the more effortful condition. This study demonstrates that both measures are sensitive to changes in SNR during continuous speech.
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