Behavioral Assessment of Listening Effort Using a Dual-Task Paradigm

Gagné, Jean‐Pierre; Besser, Jana; Lemke, Ulrike

doi:10.1177/2331216516687287

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“…The interested reader is referred to the discussion by Ahissar, Laiwand, and Hochstein (2001) and Handy (2000). Nevertheless, dual-task methods have proven quite successful in identifying a role for effort in listening behavior, for example, related to hearing aid setting preferences (see Gagne et al, 2017 for review).…”

Section: Response Time and Dual-task Measuresmentioning

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Listening effort: Are we measuring cognition or affect, or both?

Francis

Love

2019

WIRES Cognitive Science

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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 those working in noise. However, as highlighted by McGarrigle et al., International Journal of Audiology, 2014, 53, 433–445, the term “listening effort” encompasses a wide variety of concepts, including the engagement and control of multiple possibly distinct neural systems for information processing, and the affective response to the expenditure of those resources in a given context. Thus, experimental or clinical methods intended to objectively quantify listening effort may ultimately reflect a complex interaction between the operations of one or more of those information processing systems, and/or the affective and motivational response to the demand on those systems. Here we examine theoretical, behavioral, and psychophysiological factors related to resolving the question of what we are measuring, and why, when we measure “listening effort.” This article is categorized under: Linguistics > Language in Mind and Brain Psychology > Theory and Methods Psychology > Attention Psychology > Emotion and Motivation

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Section: Response Time and Dual-task Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Listening effort: Are we measuring cognition or affect, or both?

Francis

Love

2019

WIRES Cognitive Science

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“…In general, further investigations are warranted into the relationship between speech comprehension scores and listening effort, perhaps incorporating objective measures of listening effort (e.g. Ayasse et al, 2017; Gagné et al, 2017). …”

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Evaluation of the NAL Dynamic Conversations Test in older listeners with hearing loss

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Keidser

Freeston

et al. 2017

International Journal of Audiology

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Objective: The National Acoustic Laboratories Dynamic Conversations Test (NAL-DCT) is a new test of speech comprehension that incorporates a realistic environment and dynamic speech materials that capture certain features of everyday conversations. The goal of this study was to assess the suitability of the test for studying the consequences of hearing loss and amplification in older listeners. Design: Unaided and aided comprehension scores were measured for single-, two- and three-talker passages, along with unaided and aided sentence recall. To characterise the relevant cognitive abilities of the group, measures of short-term working memory, verbal information-processing speed, and reading comprehension speed were collected. Study Sample: Participants were 41 older listeners with varying degrees of hearing loss. Results: Performance on both the NAL-DCT and the sentence test was strongly driven by hearing loss, but performance on the NAL-DCT was additionally related to a composite cognitive deficit score. Benefits of amplification were measurable but influenced by individual test SNRs. Conclusions: The NAL-DCT is sensitive to the same factors as a traditional sentence recall test, but in addition is sensitive to cognitive factors required for speech processing. The test shows promise as a tool for research concerned with real-world listening.

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“…Nevertheless, the explicit instruction to read the words, activates verbal working memory which is the same cognitive function that speech-in-noise tests rely on. In view of this, our test is likely to be more sensitive to changes in listening effort than other visual tasks used in dual-task paradigms (Picou & Ricketts, 2014;Gagné et al, 2017).…”

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“…Accordingly, the performance on this secondary task represents the effort expended on the primary task. Although dual-task paradigms are widely used, no consensus is yet achieved about which type of dual-task should be used (Gagné et al, 2017).…”

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Top-down modulation of neural envelope tracking: the interplay with behavioral, self-report and neural measures of listening effort

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Lesenfants

Vanthornhout

et al. 2019

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AbstractWhen listening to natural speech, our neural activity tracks the speech envelope. Moreover, recent research has demonstrated that this neural envelope tracking can be affected by top-down processes. The present study was designed to examine if neural envelope tracking is modulated by the effort that a person expends during listening. Five measures were included to quantify listening effort: two behavioral measures based on a novel dual-task paradigm, a self-report effort measure and two neural measures related to neural phase synchronization and alpha power. Electroencephalography responses to sentences, presented at a wide range of subject-specific signal-to-noise ratios, were recorded in thirteen young, normal-hearing adults. A comparison of the five measures revealed different effects of listening effort as a function of speech understanding. Reaction times on the primary task and self-reported effort decreased with increasing speech understanding. In contrast, reaction times on the secondary task and alpha power showed a peak-shaped behavior with highest effort at intermediate speech understanding levels. We found a positive association between envelope tracking and speech understanding. While a significant effect of listening effort was found on theta-band envelope tracking, the effect size was negligible. Therefore, our results suggest that listening effort is not a confound when using envelope tracking to objectively measure speech understanding in young, normal-hearing adults.

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Behavioral Assessment of Listening Effort Using a Dual-Task Paradigm

Cited by 151 publications

References 58 publications

Listening effort: Are we measuring cognition or affect, or both?

Listening effort: Are we measuring cognition or affect, or both?

Evaluation of the NAL Dynamic Conversations Test in older listeners with hearing loss

Top-down modulation of neural envelope tracking: the interplay with behavioral, self-report and neural measures of listening effort

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