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Pupil Dilation Is Sensitive to Semantic Ambiguity and Acoustic Degradation.
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- Visual Speech Reduces Cognitive Effort as Measured by EEG Theta Power and Pupil Dilation.eNeuro · 2025Article
- Salience-Dependent Disruption of Sustained Auditory Attention Can Be Inferred from Evoked Pupil Responses and Neural Tracking of Task-Irrelevant Sounds.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- The role of suprasegmental cues in perception of sentences with linguistic ambiguity under informational masking.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Pupil Size Tracks the Effects of Global Context and Semantic Ambiguity on Word-Meaning Processing.Journal of cognition · 2025Article
- Neurophysiology of Effortful Listening: Decoupling Motivational Modulation from Task Demands.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
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- Eye Movements Decrease during Effortful Speech Listening.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Neural α Oscillations and Pupil Size Differentially Index Cognitive Demand under Competing Audiovisual Task Conditions.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
- Phonological discrimination and contrast detection in pupillometry.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Studying Individual Differences in Language Comprehension: The Challenges of Item-Level Variability and Well-Matched Control Conditions.Journal of cognition · 2023Article
- Pupil Dilation Reflects Emotional Arousal Via Poetic Language.Perceptual and motor skills · 2022Article
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- Adults with cochlear implants can use prosody to determine the clausal structure of spoken sentences.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2021Article
- An implicit representation of stimulus ambiguity in pupil size.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Slower Speaking Rate Reduces Listening Effort Among Listeners With Cochlear Implants.Ear and hearingArticle
- Quantifying the Effect of Noise on Cognitive Processes: A Review of Psychophysiological Correlates of Workload.Noise & healthReview
- Listening Effort Is Not the Same as Speech Intelligibility Score.Trends in hearingArticle
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Abstract
Speech comprehension is challenged by background noise, acoustic interference, and linguistic factors, such as the presence of words with more than one meaning (homonyms and homophones). Previous work suggests that homophony in spoken language increases cognitive demand. Here, we measured pupil dilation-a physiological index of cognitive demand-while listeners heard
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