ArticleJournal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR2022
Effortful Listening Despite Correct Responses: The Cost of Mental Repair in Sentence Recognition by Listeners With Cochlear Implants.
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- 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
- Electromyographic responses of the auriculomotor system during effortful listening in hearing aid users.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- 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
- Individual control of input rate improves recall of spoken discourse by adult users of cochlear implants: An exploratory study.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2024Article
- Temporal speech cue perception in listeners with cochlear implants depends on the time between those cues and previous sound energy.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2024Article
- Pupillometry reveals effects of pitch manipulation within and across words on listening effort and short-term memory.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Input-related demands: vocoded sentences evoke different pupillometrics and subjective listening effort than sentences in speech-shaped noise.International journal of audiology · 2024Article
- Pupil Dilation and Microsaccades Provide Complementary Insights into the Dynamics of Arousal and Instantaneous Attention during Effortful Listening.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
- 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 efficiency in adult cochlear-implant users compared with normally-hearing controls at ecologically relevant signal-to-noise ratios.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Assessing Hearing-Related Quality of Life in Adults With Hearing Loss: Validation of the German Cochlear Implant Quality of Life (CIQOL)-35 Profile.Trends in hearingArticle
- Attention Mobilization as a Modulator of Listening Effort: Evidence From Pupillometry.Trends in hearingArticle
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- Repairing Misperceptions of Words Early in a Sentence is More Effortful Than Repairing Later Words, Especially for Listeners With Cochlear Implants.Trends in hearingArticle
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- Pupillary Responses During a Dual Task: Effect of Noise Attenuation on the Timing of Cognitive Resource Allocation.Trends in hearingArticle
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Abstract
purposeSpeech recognition percent correct scores fail to capture the effort of mentally repairing the perception of speech that was initially misheard. This study measured the effort of listening to stimuli specifically designed to elicit mental repair in adults who use cochlear implants (CIs).
methodCI listeners heard and repeated sentences in which specific words were distorted or masked by noise but recovered based on later context: a signature of mental repair. Changes in pupil dilation were tracked as an index of effort and time-locked with specific landmarks during perception.
resultsEffort significantly increases when a listener needs to repair a misperceived word, even if the verbal response is ultimately correct. Mental repair of words in a sentence was accompanied by greater prevalence of errors
conclusionsListening effort as tracked by pupil dilation is better explained by the mental repair and reconstruction of words rather than the appearance of correct or incorrect perception. Linguistic coherence drives effort more heavily than the mere presence of mistakes, highlighting the importance of testing materials that do not constrain coherence by design.
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