This article presents a review of the effects of adverse conditions (ACs) on the perceptual,
linguistic, cognitive, and neurophysiological mechanisms underlying speech recognition …

Published investigations (n= 29) in which a dual-task experimental paradigm was employed
to measure listening effort during speech understanding in younger and older adults were …

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in extraordinary declines in human mobility, which, in
turn, may affect wildlife. Using records of more than 4.3 million birds observed by volunteers …

With the advent of virtual reality (VR) technology, spatial audio has been increasingly
adopted to evaluate the acoustic environment in soundscape research. It is therefore …

The extensive literature documenting the ecological effects of roads has repeatedly
implicated noise as one of the causal factors. Recent studies of wildlife responses to noise …

Objectives: Recent research has demonstrated that pupil dilation, a measure of mental effort
(cognitive processing load), is sensitive to differences in speech intelligibility. The present …

Introducing pleasant natural sounds to mask urban noises is an important soundscape
design strategy to improve acoustic comfort. This study investigates the effects of signal-to …

Effects of perceptual and cognitive loads on spoken-word recognition have so far largely
escaped investigation. This study lays the foundations of a psycholinguistic approach to …

This paper introduces active listening, as a unified framework for synthesising and
recognising speech. The notion of active listening inherits from active inference, which …

Are musicians better able to understand speech in noise than non-musicians? Recent
findings have produced contradictory results. Here we addressed this question by asking …