Perceived listening effort for a tonal task with contralateral competing signals

Bologna, William J.; Chatterjee, Monita; Dubno, Judy R.

doi:10.1121/1.4820808

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“…To assess effort, we used the following item from the NASA task load index: “How hard did you have to work to accomplish your level of performance?” (Hart & Staveland, ). This particular scale has previously been used in the literature to assess perceived listening effort (Bologna, Chatterjee, & Dubno, ; Mackersie & Cones, ). Below this instruction was a Likert scale with 21 increments (1 = very low , 20 = very high ).…”

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Pupillometry reveals changes in physiological arousal during a sustained listening task

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Hearing loss is associated with anecdotal reports of fatigue during periods of sustained listening. However, few studies have attempted to measure changes in arousal, as a potential marker of fatigue, over the course of a sustained listening task. The present study aimed to examine subjective, behavioral, and physiological indices of listening‐related fatigue. Twenty‐four normal‐hearing young adults performed a speech‐picture verification task in different signal‐to‐noise ratios (SNRs) while their pupil size was monitored and response times recorded. Growth curve analysis revealed a significantly steeper linear decrease in pupil size in the more challenging SNR, but only in the second half of the trial block. Changes in pupil dynamics over the course of the more challenging listening condition block suggest a reduction in physiological arousal. Behavioral and self‐report measures did not reveal any differences between listening conditions. This is the first study to show reduced physiological arousal during a sustained listening task, with changes over time consistent with the onset of fatigue.

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Pupillometry reveals changes in physiological arousal during a sustained listening task

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“…As noted, individuals who are hard of hearing often report that, even when they can correctly identify what is being said, listening to speech is more difficult than it was when they were younger and had better hearing. Consistent with these subjective reports, a number of researchers (McCoy et al, 2005; Nachtegaal et al, 2009; Pichora-Fuller & Singh, 2006) have reported that, in addition to reduced speech intelligibility, individuals with hearing loss often report increased effort and fatigue, particularly when listening in noise, even when changes in the listening environment do not produce changes in overall performance (Bologna, Chatterjee, & Dubno, 2013; Hick & Tharpe, 2002). …”

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Listening Effort in Younger and Older Adults: A Comparison of Auditory-Only and Auditory-Visual Presentations

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2016

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One goal of the present study was to establish whether providing younger and older adults with visual speech information (both seeing and hearing a talker compared with listening alone) would reduce listening effort for understanding speech in noise. In addition, we used an individual differences approach to assess whether changes in listening effort were related to changes in visual enhancement – the improvement in speech understanding in going from an auditory-only (A-only) to an auditory-visual condition (AV) condition. To compare word recognition in A-only and AV modalities, younger and older adults identified words in both A-only and AV conditions in the presence of six-talker babble. Listening effort was assessed using a modified version of a serial recall task. Participants heard (A-only) or saw and heard (AV) a talker producing individual words without background noise. List presentation was stopped randomly and participants were then asked to repeat the last 3 words that were presented. Listening effort was assessed using recall performance in the 2-back and 3-back positions. Younger, but not older, adults exhibited reduced listening effort as indexed by greater recall in the 2- and 3-back positions for the AV compared with the A-only presentations. For younger, but not older adults, changes in performance from the A-only to the AV condition were moderately correlated with visual enhancement. Results are discussed within a limited-resource model of both A-only and AV speech perception.

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“…However, clinicians and researchers have long noted that the impact of hearing loss is not solely a decline in the number of words that can be correctly recognized. Individuals with hearing loss also report increased effort and fatigue, particularly when listening in noise (Hétu, Riverin, Lalande, Getty, & St-Cyr, 1988;Hicks & Tharpe, 2002;McCoy et al, 2005;Nachtegaal et al, 2009;Pichora-Fuller, 2006), even when performance is equivalent (Bologna, Chatterjee, & Dubno, 2013;Hicks & Tharpe, 2002;McCoy et al, 2005). Though not standards of clinical care, research evaluations of interventions have employed subjective measures of effort via self-assessment scales (Ahlstrom, Horwitz, & Dubno, 2014;Cox & Alexander, 1992;Humes, Garner, Wilson, & Barlow, 2001;Sweetow & Sabes, 2006).…”

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Speech‐perception training for older adults with hearing loss impacts word recognition and effort

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The current pupillometry study examined the impact of speech-perception training on word recognition and cognitive effort in older adults with hearing loss. Trainees identified more words at the follow-up than at the baseline session. Training also resulted in an overall larger and faster peaking pupillary response, even when controlling for performance and reaction time. Perceptual and cognitive capacities affected the peak amplitude of the pupil response across participants but did not diminish the impact of training on the other pupil metrics. Thus, we demonstrated that pupillometry can be used to characterize training-related and individual differences in effort during a challenging listening task. Importantly, the results indicate that speech-perception training not only affects overall word recognition, but also a physiological metric of cognitive effort, which has the potential to be a biomarker of hearing loss intervention outcome.

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Perceived listening effort for a tonal task with contralateral competing signals

Cited by 11 publications

References 13 publications

Pupillometry reveals changes in physiological arousal during a sustained listening task

Pupillometry reveals changes in physiological arousal during a sustained listening task

Listening Effort in Younger and Older Adults: A Comparison of Auditory-Only and Auditory-Visual Presentations

Speech‐perception training for older adults with hearing loss impacts word recognition and effort

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