What is social pressure, and how could it be adaptive to conform to others' expectations?
Existing accounts highlight the importance of reputation and social sanctions. Yet, conformist …

Listening effort is increasingly recognized as a factor in communication, particularly for and
with nonnative speakers, for the elderly, for individuals with hearing impairment and/or for …

Hearing impairment in older adulthood puts people at risk of communication difficulties,
disengagement from listening, and social withdrawal. Here, we develop a model of listening …

The latent constructs psychologists study are typically not directly accessible, so researchers
must design measurement instruments that are intended to provide insights about those …

In hearing research, pupillometry is an established method of studying listening effort. The
focus of this study was to evaluate several pupil measures extracted from the Task-Evoked …

Exposure to noise—or unwanted sound—is considered a major public health issue in the
United States and internationally. Previous work has shown that even acute noise exposure …

A wide variety of research and clinical assessments involve presenting speech stimuli in the
presence of some kind of noise. Here, I selectively review two theoretical perspectives and …

Currently, we face an exponentially increasing interest in immersion, especially sensory–
driven immersion, mainly due to the rapid development of ideas and business models …

The bond between an infant and their primary caregiver plays a pivotal role in the infant's
social, emotional, and cognitive development. Central to this bonding process is affective …

Neuroaesthetics, the science studying the biological underpinnings of aesthetic experience,
recently extended its area of investigation to literary art; this was the humus where …