Behavioral assessment of listening effort using a dual-task paradigm: A review

JP Gagne, J Besser, U Lemke - Trends in hearing, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Attention, awareness, and the perception of auditory scenes

JS Snyder, MK Gregg, DM Weintraub… - Frontiers in …, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Auditory perception and cognition entails both low-level and high-level processes, which are
likely to interact with each other to create our rich conscious experience of soundscapes …

Anti-noise window: Subjective perception of active noise reduction and effect of informational masking

B Lam, KCQ Lim, K Ooi, ZT Ong, D Shi… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Reviving natural ventilation (NV) for urban sustainability presents challenges for indoor
acoustic comfort. Active control and interference-based noise mitigation strategies, such as …

Executive function, visual attention and the cocktail party problem in musicians and non-musicians

KK Clayton, J Swaminathan, A Yazdanbakhsh, J Zuk… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The goal of this study was to investigate how cognitive factors influence performance in a
multi-talker,“cocktail-party” like environment in musicians and non-musicians. This was …

The effects of hearing loss and age on the benefit of spatial separation between multiple talkers in reverberant rooms

N Marrone, CR Mason, G Kidd Jr - … Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
This study investigated the interaction between hearing loss, reverberation, and age on the
benefit of spatially separating multiple masking talkers from a target talker. Four listener …

[HTML][HTML] Determining the energetic and informational components of speech-on-speech masking

G Kidd, CR Mason, J Swaminathan… - The Journal of the …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Identification of target speech was studied under masked conditions consisting of two or four
independent speech maskers. In the reference conditions, the maskers were colocated with …

Listening to every other word: Examining the strength of linkage variables in forming streams of speech

G Kidd, V Best, CR Mason - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
listeners were presented with two sentences spoken in a sequential, interleaved-word
format. Sentence one (target) comprised the odd-numbered words in the sequence and …

Having two ears facilitates the perceptual separation of concurrent talkers for bilateral and single-sided deaf cochlear implantees

JGW Bernstein, MJ Goupell, GI Schuchman… - Ear and …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Listening to speech with multiple competing talkers requires the perceptual
separation of the target voice from the interfering background. Normal-hearing listeners are …

Stimulus factors influencing spatial release from speech-on-speech masking

G Kidd, CR Mason, V Best, N Marrone - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
This study examined spatial release from masking (SRM) when a target talker was masked
by competing talkers or by other types of sounds. The focus was on the role of interaural time …

[HTML][HTML] Development of auditory selective attention: why children struggle to hear in noisy environments.

PR Jones, DR Moore, S Amitay - Developmental psychology, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Children's hearing deteriorates markedly in the presence of unpredictable noise. To explore
why, 187 school-age children (4–11 years) and 15 adults performed a tone-in-noise …