Pupil dilation as an index of effort in cognitive control tasks: A review

P Van der Wel, H Van Steenbergen - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2018 - Springer
… in pupil dilation. Studies show a diverging pattern with respect to the relationship between
pupil dilation and performance and we show how an effort account of pupil dilation can …

Pupil dilation as an index of learning

C Sibley, J Coyne, C Baldwin - Proceedings of the Human …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
… potential for pupil diameter to provide a sensitive index of cognitive workload as an individual
learned two UAV tasks of increasing difficulty. The ultimate goal of this research effort is to …

Cognitive effort and pupil dilation in controlled and automatic processes

E Querino, L Dos Santos, G Ginani… - Translational …, 2015 - degruyter.com
pupillary diameter increases as the task’s cognitive demand increases. In the present study,
we evaluated whether the pupillary diameter could distinguish cognitive efforteffort for each …

Pupillary dilation as an index of task demands

R Cabestrero, A Crespo… - Perceptual and motor …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
… Discussion The main objective of the present study was to analyze how pupillary responses
reflect mental effort and allocation of processing resources under various conditions of …

The Index of Pupillary Activity: Measuring Cognitive Load vis-à-vis Task Difficulty with Pupil Oscillation

AT Duchowski, K Krejtz, I Krejtz, C Biele… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
… tween pupil dilation and problem difficulty, ie, showing that pupil … suggested that pupil diameter
provided a “very effective index of … effort while high counts indicate strong cognitive effort. …

Pupil dilation as an index of verbal fluency

ME Haj, Q Lenoble, P Allain - The American …, 2020 - scholarlypublishingcollective.org
… notion that pupil dilation mirrors the cognitive effort involved in linguistic tasks. One clinical
implication of our findings is that pupil dilation may be used as a behavioral index of cognitive …

Pupil dilation uncovers extra listening effort in the presence of a single-talker masker

T Koelewijn, AA Zekveld, JM Festen, SE Kramer - Ear and hearing, 2012 - journals.lww.com
… needed more mental effort for speech perception in the … effort measures underlines the
importance of including measurements of pupil dilation as an independent index of mental effort

The impact of auditory spectral resolution on listening effort revealed by pupil dilation

MB Winn, JR Edwards, RY Litovsky - Ear and hearing, 2015 - journals.lww.com
… Another reliable index of cognitive load is pupillometry or the measurement of pupil dilation.
… First, listening effort in the present study was measured via pupil dilation rather than by a …

Pupil size and eye movements differently index effort in both younger and older adults

B Herrmann, JD Ryan - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
… We expected individuals to invest little effort for easy and impossible speech (giving up) but
to exert effort for difficult speech. Indeed, pupil size was largest for difficult but lower for easy …

Your effort is showing! Pupil dilation reveals memory heuristics

MH Papesh, SD Goldinger - … and Metacognition: Essays in Honour of …, 2011 - Springer
… For the present purposes, we focus on the observed differences in pupil dilation, as we
believe that they accurately index underlying cognitive effort and predict future memory. Using …