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 …

External degradations in incoming speech reduce understanding, and hearing impairment
further compounds the problem. While cognitive mechanisms alleviate some of the …

Objectives: Increased listening effort in school-age children with hearing loss (CHL) could
compromise learning and academic achievement. Identifying a sensitive behavioral …

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a small change in
reverberation time (from 0.57 to 0.69 s) in a classroom on children's performance and …

Objective The aim of this study was to assess to what extent simultaneously-obtained
measures of listening effort (task-evoked pupil dilation, verbal response time [RT], and self …

Objectives: Emotional communication is a cornerstone of social cognition and informs
human interaction. Previous studies have shown deficits in facial and vocal emotion …

Objectives: The objective of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity and reliability of one
subjective (rating scale) and three objective (dual-task paradigm, pupillometry, and skin …

Purpose This study aims to investigate the listening effort made by young children in real
classrooms during a prolonged speech reception task in the presence of background noise …

This study addresses the issue of an enhanced acoustical design of rooms for speech,
which besides targeting high speech intelligibility also ensures minimal effort in speech …

When listening to natural speech, our brain activity tracks the slow amplitude modulations of
speech, also called the speech envelope. Moreover, recent research has demonstrated that …