Objective: The current update of the Ease of Language Understanding (ELU) model
evaluates the predictive and postdictive aspects of speech understanding and …

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 …

Objective: There is growing interest in the concepts of listening effort and fatigue associated
with hearing loss. However, the theoretical underpinnings and clinical meaning of these …

Purpose Listening effort (LE) describes the attentional or cognitive requirements for
successful listening. Despite substantial theoretical and clinical interest in LE, inconsistent …

O bjective: The aims of the current n200 study were to assess the structural relations
between three classes of test variables (ie HEARING, COGNITION and aided speech-in …

This review provides a description of age-related changes in hearing and cognition, the
relationship between hearing and cognition, and several potential mechanisms that underlie …

We investigated changes in speech recognition and cognitive processing load due to the
masking release attributable to decreasing similarity between target and masker speech …

The comprehension of spoken language has been characterized by a number of “local”
theories that have focused on specific aspects of the task: models of word recognition …

The natural environments in which infants and children learn speech and language are
noisy and multimodal. Adults rely on the multimodal nature of speech to compensate for …

The latent constructs psychologists study are typically not directly accessible, so researchers
must design measurement instruments that are intended to provide insights about those …