How struggling adult readers use contextual information when comprehending speech: Evidence from event-related potentials

Ng, Shukhan; Payne, Brennan R.; Stine‐Morrow, Elizabeth A. L.; Federmeier, Kara D.

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.01.013

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“…To do this, we utilized methodologies and outcomes used in prior work in cognitive audiology and cognitive electrophysiology in the same sample. Specifically, we simultaneously examined behavioral (e.g, memory) and neural (e.g, ERP) responses to acoustic challenge in speech processing while participants listened to sentences that varied in contextual constraint and lexical expectancy (e.g., Federmeier et al, 2007;Ng et al, 2018). In addition, we simultaneously recorded pupillometry as an objective and online physiological measure of listening effort.…”

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The costs (and benefits) of effortful listening on context processing: A simultaneous electrophysiology, pupillometry, and behavioral study

Silcox

Payne

2021

Cortex

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There is an apparent disparity between the fields of cognitive audiology and cognitive electrophysiology as to how linguistic context is used when listening to perceptually challenging speech. To gain a clearer picture of how listening effort impacts context use, we conducted a preregistered study to simultaneously examine electrophysiological, pupillometric, and behavioral responses when listening to sentences varying in contextual constraint and acoustic challenge in the same sample. Participants (N = 44) listened to sentences that were highly constraining and completed with expected or unexpected sentence-final words ("The prisoners were planning their escape/party") or were low-constraint sentences with unexpected sentence-final words ("All day she thought about the party"). Sentences were presented either in quiet or with +3 dB SNR background noise. Pupillometry and EEG were simultaneously recorded and subsequent sentence recognition and word recall were measured. While the N400 expectancy effect was diminished by noise, suggesting impaired real-time context use, we simultaneously observed a beneficial effect of constraint on subsequent recognition memory for degraded speech. Importantly, analyses of trial-to-trial coupling between pupil dilation and N400 amplitude showed that when participants' showed increased listening effort (i.e., greater pupil dilation), there was a subsequent recovery of the N400 effect, but at the same time, higher effort was related to poorer subsequent sentence recognition and word recall. Collectively, these findings suggest divergent effects of acoustic challenge and listening effort on context use: while noise impairs the rapid use of context to facilitate lexical semantic processing in general, this negative effect is attenuated when listeners show increased effort in response to noise. However, this effort-induced reliance on context for online word processing comes at the cost of poorer subsequent memory.

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The costs (and benefits) of effortful listening on context processing: A simultaneous electrophysiology, pupillometry, and behavioral study

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2021

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“…Even college students in the USA with higher literacy (as assessed in author recognition, vocabulary knowledge, word reading, reading habits, and weekly reading time) predict more upcoming spoken language than US college students with lower literacy [21]. Moreover, a recent electrophysiological study has shown that higher reading proficiency in adults is associated with reduced negativity over anterior channels as early as 170-300 ms after target onset when listening to a strongly predictable spoken target word compared with adults with lower reading proficiency [22]. It is important to stress here that this does not mean that without reading experience listeners make no predictions.…”

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Literacy Advantages Beyond Reading: Prediction of Spoken Language

Huettig

Pickering

2019

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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“…Typically, reductions in N400 effects have been viewed as deficiencies in being able to utilize context to facilitate semantic processing (e.g., Wlotko, Lee, & Federmeier, 2010;Ng et al, 2017Ng et al, , 2018. The reduction in the N400 expectancy effect seen in our data likely suggests that when listening in noise, the listener's ability to utilize contextual information to build up expectations to facilitate semantic retrieval of individual words is reduced (for a discussion on how the N400 reflects semantic memory retrieval processes see, Kutas & Federmeier, 2000.…”

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The costs (and benefits) of effortful listening on context processing: A simultaneous electrophysiology, pupillometry, and behavioral study

Silcox¹,

Payne²

2020

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There is a disparity between the fields of cognitive audiology and cognitive electrophysiology as to how linguistic context is utilized when listening to perceptually challenging speech. To gain a clearer picture of how listening effort impacts context use, we conducted a pre-registered study to simultaneously examine electrophysiological, pupillometric, and behavioral responses when listening to sentences varying in contextual constraint and acoustic challenge in the same sample. Participants (N = 44) listened to sentences that were highly constraining and completed with expected or unexpected sentence-final words (“The prisoners were planning their escape/party”) or were low-constraint sentences with unexpected sentence-final words (“All day she thought about the party”). Sentences were presented either in quiet or with +3 dB SNR background noise. Pupillometry and EEG were simultaneously recorded and subsequent sentence recognition and word recall were measured. While the N400 expectancy effect was diminished by noise, suggesting impaired real-time context use, we simultaneously observed a beneficial effect of constraint on subsequent recognition memory for degraded speech. Importantly, analyses of trial-to-trial coupling between pupil dilation and N400 amplitude showed that when participants’ showed increased listening effort (i.e., greater pupil dilation), there was a subsequent recovery of the N400 effect, but at the same time, higher effort was related to poorer subsequent sentence recognition and word recall. Collectively, these findings suggest divergent effects of acoustic challenge and listening effort on context use: while noise impairs the rapid use of context to facilitate lexical semantic processing in general, this negative effect is attenuated when listeners increase effort in response to noise. However, this effort-induced reliance on context for online word processing comes at the cost of poorer subsequent memory.

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How struggling adult readers use contextual information when comprehending speech: Evidence from event-related potentials

Cited by 25 publications

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The costs (and benefits) of effortful listening on context processing: A simultaneous electrophysiology, pupillometry, and behavioral study

The costs (and benefits) of effortful listening on context processing: A simultaneous electrophysiology, pupillometry, and behavioral study

Literacy Advantages Beyond Reading: Prediction of Spoken Language

The costs (and benefits) of effortful listening on context processing: A simultaneous electrophysiology, pupillometry, and behavioral study

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