“…Similarly, the spoken stories used here are intrinsically motivating to a listener, reflecting such everyday listening situations (Dunlop and Walker, 2013). Our work shows, in line with recent studies (Broderick et al, 2018(Broderick et al, , 2019(Broderick et al, , 2021Brodbeck et al, 2020;Erb et al, 2020;Polonenko and Maddox, 2021), that utilizing naturalistic, spoken stories to investigate speech listening provide a useful avenue to investigate listening in ecologically valid conditions.…”