ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
The Principle of Least Effort and Comprehension of Spoken Sentences by Younger and Older Adults.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Time Scales and Moments of Listening Effort Revealed in Pupillometry.Seminars in hearing · 2023Review
- Hearing loss, depression, and cognition in younger and older adult CI candidates.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- The cognitive hearing science perspective on perceiving, understanding, and remembering language: The ELU model.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Rational speech comprehension: Interaction between predictability, acoustic signal, and noise.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Seeing a Talker's Mouth Reduces the Effort of Perceiving Speech and Repairing Perceptual Mistakes for Listeners With Cochlear Implants.Ear and hearingArticle
- Repairing Misperceptions of Words Early in a Sentence is More Effortful Than Repairing Later Words, Especially for Listeners With Cochlear Implants.Trends in hearingArticle
- Attention Mobilization as a Modulator of Listening Effort: Evidence From Pupillometry.Trends in hearingArticle
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There is considerable evidence that listeners' understanding of a spoken sentence need not always follow from a full analysis of the words and syntax of the utterance. Rather, listeners may instead conduct a superficial analysis, sampling some words and using presumed plausibility to arrive at an understanding of the sentence meaning. Because this latter strategy occurs more often for sentences with complex syntax that place a heavier processing burden on the listener than sentences with simpler syntax, shallow processing may represent a resource conserving strategy reflected in reduced processing effort. This factor may be even more important for older adults who as a group are known to have more limited working memory resources. In the present experiment, 40 older adults (
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