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Listening Effort Is Not the Same as Speech Intelligibility Score.
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63 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Characterizing listener perception of dysarthric speech beyond speech intelligibility.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2026Article
- Listening effort measurement by pupillometry under dual-task paradigms: the effect of auditory spectral resolution.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026Article
- Acoustic Salience Drives Pupillary Dynamics in an Interrupted, Reverberant Task.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Listening effort among adult cochlear implant users: a protocol for a systematic review and measure-specific meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Perceptual Outcome Measures for Supplementing Transcription Intelligibility in Speakers with Parkinson's Disease and Mild Dysarthria.Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP) · 2026Article
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- The auditory nerve implant-concept and device description of a novel electrical auditory prosthesis.Bioelectronic medicine · 2025Review
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- Cochlear-implant dichotic listening performance and effort are disrupted with functional ear asymmetry.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2025Article
- Evolving perspectives on speech perception assessment in adults with cochlear implants: Are we using the right tests?Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Review
- The role of suprasegmental cues in perception of sentences with linguistic ambiguity under informational masking.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Speech-evoked cortical activities and speech recognition in adult cochlear implant listeners: a review of functional near-infrared spectroscopy studies.Experimental brain research · 2024Review
- Pupillometry reveals effects of pitch manipulation within and across words on listening effort and short-term memory.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Underlying dimensions of real-time word recognition in cochlear implant users.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Listening Effort for Speech in Noise Perception Using Pupil Dilation: A Comparison Among Percussionists, Non-Percussionists, and Non-Musicians.Journal of audiology & otology · 2024Article
- The impact of face coverings on audio-visual contributions to communication with conversational speech.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2024Article
- Used to Be a Dime, Now It's a Dollar: Revised Speech Perception in Noise Key Word Predictability Revisited 40 Years On.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2024Article
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Abstract
Listening effort is a valuable and important notion to measure because it is among the primary complaints of people with hearing loss. It is tempting and intuitive to accept speech intelligibility scores as a proxy for listening effort, but this link is likely oversimplified and lacks actionable explanatory power. This study was conducted to explain the mechanisms of listening effort that are not captured by intelligibility scores, using sentence-repetition tasks where specific kinds of mistakes were prospectively planned or analyzed retrospectively. Effort measured as changes in pupil size among 20 listeners with normal hearing and 19 listeners with cochlear implants. Experiment 1 demonstrates that mental correction of misperceived words increases effort even when responses are correct. Experiment 2 shows that for incorrect responses, listening effort is not a function of the proportion of words correct but is rather driven by the types of errors, position of errors within a sentence, and the need to resolve ambiguity, reflecting how easily the listener can make sense of a perception. A simple taxonomy of error types is provided that is both intuitive and consistent with data from these two experiments. The diversity of errors in these experiments implies that speech perception tasks can be designed prospectively to elicit the mistakes that are more closely linked with effort. Although mental corrective action and number of mistakes can scale together in many experiments, it is possible to dissociate them to advance toward a more explanatory (rather than correlational) account of listening effort.
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