Relations Between Self-Reported Daily-Life Fatigue, Hearing Status, and Pupil Dilation During a Speech Perception in Noise Task

Wang, Yan; Naylor, Graham; Kramer, Sophia E.; Zekveld, Adriana A.; Wendt, Dorothea; Ohlenforst, Barbara; Lunner, Thomas

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“…This finding is in line with several previous observations demonstrating an enhanced pupil size when individuals listen under acoustic challenges (Zekveld et al, 2010;Koelewijn et al, 2014;Winn et al, 2015;Wendt et al, 2016;Miles et al, 2017). Acoustic degradation due to auditory peripheral damage is associated with similar effects on pupil dilation during speech comprehension: It is larger for older compared to younger adults (Ayasse and Wingfield, 2018), for older adults with hearing loss compared to those without (Ayasse and Wingfield, 2018; but see Koelewijn et al, 2017;Wang et al, 2018), and for people with cochlear implants compared to people without (Winn, 2016).…”

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Pupil dilation is sensitive to semantic ambiguity and acoustic degradation

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Speech comprehension is often challenged by background noise or other acoustic interference. It can also be challenged by linguistic factors, such as complex syntax, or the presence of words with more than one meaning. Pupillometry is increasingly recognized as a technique that provides a window onto acoustic challenges, but this work has not been well integrated with an older literature linking pupil dilation to "mental effort", which would include linguistic challenges. Here, we measured pupil dilation while listeners heard spoken sentences with clear sentence-level meaning that contained words with more than one meaning ("The shell was fired towards the tank") or matched sentences without ambiguous words ("Her secrets were written in her diary"). This semantic-ambiguity manipulation was crossed with an acoustic manipulation: two levels of a 30-talker babble masker in Experiment 1; and presence or absence of a pink noise masker in Experiment 2. Speech comprehension, indexed by a semantic relatedness task, was high (above 82% correct) in all conditions. Pupils dilated when sentences included semantically ambiguous words compared to matched sentences and when maskers were present compared to absent (Experiment 2) or were more compared to less intense (Experiment 1). The current results reinforce the idea that many different challenges to speech comprehension, that afford different cognitive processes and are met by the brain in different ways, manifest as an increase in pupil dilation.

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Pupil dilation is sensitive to semantic ambiguity and acoustic degradation

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“…Although as noted several studies using speech stimuli have examined effects of hearing impairment on task-related pupil dilation, few studies have examined effects of hearing on the BPD itself. Those that have, have produced mixed results (cf., Zekveld et al, 2011;Kramer et al, 2016;Wang et al, 2018).…”

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Anticipatory Baseline Pupil Diameter Is Sensitive to Differences in Hearing Thresholds

Ayasse

Wingfield

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Task-evoked changes in pupil dilation have long been used as a physiological index of cognitive effort. Unlike this response, that is measured during or after an experimental trial, the baseline pupil dilation (BPD) is a measure taken prior to an experimental trial. As such, it is considered to reflect an individual's arousal level in anticipation of an experimental trial. We report data for 68 participants, ages 18 to 89, whose hearing acuity ranged from normal hearing to a moderate hearing loss, tested over a series 160 trials on an auditory sentence comprehension task. Results showed that BPDs progressively declined over the course of the experimental trials, with participants with poorer pure tone detection thresholds showing a steeper rate of decline than those with better thresholds. Data showed this slope difference to be due to participants with poorer hearing having larger BPDs than those with better hearing at the start of the experiment, but with their BPDs approaching that of the better hearing participants by the end of the 160 trials. A finding of increasing response accuracy over trials was seen as inconsistent with a fatigue or reduced task engagement account of the diminishing BPDs. Rather, the present results imply BPD as reflecting a heightened arousal level in poorer-hearing participants in anticipation of a task that demands accurate speech perception, a concern that dissipates over trials with task success. These data taken with others suggest that the baseline pupillary response may not reflect a single construct.

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“…Because pupil size variation is the result of a complex interplay between the 29 parasympathetic and sympathetic system, pupillometry can also reveal aspects of 30 listening effort relating to fatigue, motivation and arousal [31][32][33][34]. For instance, Wang 31 et al [34] showed a negative correlation between the need for recovery and peak pupil 32 dilation relative the baseline (PPD), supporting the assumption that high fatigue could 33 be related to a reduced state of arousal (hence smaller pupillary response) [35].…”

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Disentangling listening effort and memory load beyond behavioural evidence: Pupillary response to listening effort during a concurrent memory task

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Lehmann

Deroche

2020

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Recent research has demonstrated that pupillometry is a robust measure for quantifying listening effort. However, pupillary responses in listening situations where multiple cognitive functions are engaged and sustained over a period of time remain hard to interpret. This limits our conceptualisation and understanding of listening effort in realistic situations, because rarely in everyday life are people challenged by one task at a time. Therefore, the purpose of this experiment was to reveal the dynamics of listening effort in a sustained listening condition using a word repeat and recall task.Words were presented in quiet and speech-shaped noise at different signal-to-noise ratios (SNR). Participants were presented with lists of 10 words, and required to repeat each word after its presentation. At the end of the list, participants either recalled as many words as possible or moved on to the next list. Simultaneously, their pupil dilation was recorded throughout the whole experiment.When only word repeating was required, peak pupil dilation (PPD) was bigger in 0dB versus other conditions; whereas when recall was required, PPD showed no difference among SNR levels and PPD in 0dB was smaller than repeat-only condition.April 29, 2020 1/41Baseline pupil diameter and PPD followed different growth patterns across the 10 serial positions in conditions requiring recall: baseline pupil diameter built up progressively and plateaued in the later positions (but shot up at the onset of recall, i.e. the end of the list); PPD decreased at a pace quicker than in repeat-only condition.The current findings concur with the recent literature in showing that additional cognitive load during a speech intelligibility task could disturb the well-established relation between pupillary response and listening effort. Both the magnitude and temporal pattern of task-evoked pupillary response differ greatly in complex listening conditions, urging for more listening effort studies in complex and realistic listening situations.Introduction 1 Effortless as it seems, everyday communication is cognitively demanding. Degraded 2 speech input induced by adverse listening conditions (e.g., background noise, 3 reverberation etc.) and peripheral hearing loss introduces mismatch between perceived 4 acoustic signals and their canonical forms [1][2][3]. Resolving this mismatch demands more 5 resources from the finite pool of cognitive resources, leading to fewer resources for other 6 cognitive tasks and eventually overload [4,5]. Populations facing long-term auditory 7 challenges are specifically at risk. For instance, people with hearing impairment and 8 particularly those using cochlear implants (CI) often experience high and sustained 9 effort, even when speech recognition performance is similar [6-10]. CI listeners have to 10 engage and deploy more cognitive resources to achieve a satisfactory level of speech 11 communication due to electric hearing. Such elevated and sustained listening effort is 12 associated with detrimental psychosocial consequence...

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Relations Between Self-Reported Daily-Life Fatigue, Hearing Status, and Pupil Dilation During a Speech Perception in Noise Task

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Cited by 76 publications

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Pupil dilation is sensitive to semantic ambiguity and acoustic degradation

Pupil dilation is sensitive to semantic ambiguity and acoustic degradation

Anticipatory Baseline Pupil Diameter Is Sensitive to Differences in Hearing Thresholds

Disentangling listening effort and memory load beyond behavioural evidence: Pupillary response to listening effort during a concurrent memory task

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