Cognitive hearing science and ease of language understanding

J Rönnberg, E Holmer, M Rudner - International journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: The current update of the Ease of Language Understanding (ELU) model
evaluates the predictive and postdictive aspects of speech understanding and …

Behavioral assessment of listening effort using a dual-task paradigm: A review

JP Gagne, J Besser, U Lemke - Trends in hearing, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Published investigations (n= 29) in which a dual-task experimental paradigm was employed
to measure listening effort during speech understanding in younger and older adults were …

Hearing impairment and cognitive energy: The framework for understanding effortful listening (FUEL)

MK Pichora-Fuller, SE Kramer, MA Eckert… - Ear and …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Abstract The Fifth Eriksholm Workshop on “Hearing Impairment and Cognitive Energy” was
convened to develop a consensus among interdisciplinary experts about what is known on …

Listening effort: Are we measuring cognition or affect, or both?

AL Francis, J Love - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Impact of SNR, masker type and noise reduction processing on sentence recognition performance and listening effort as indicated by the pupil dilation response

B Ohlenforst, D Wendt, SE Kramer, G Naylor… - Hearing research, 2018 - Elsevier
Recent studies have shown that activating the noise reduction scheme in hearing aids
results in a smaller peak pupil dilation (PPD), indicating reduced listening effort, at 50% and …

Impact of noise and noise reduction on processing effort: A pupillometry study

D Wendt, RK Hietkamp, T Lunner - Ear and hearing, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Speech perception in adverse listening situations can be exhausting. Hearing
loss particularly affects processing demands, as it requires increased effort for successful …

An exploratory study of EEG alpha oscillation and pupil dilation in hearing-aid users during effortful listening to continuous speech

T Seifi Ala, C Graversen, D Wendt, E Alickovic… - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Individuals with hearing loss allocate cognitive resources to comprehend noisy speech in
everyday life scenarios. Such a scenario could be when they are exposed to ongoing …

Cognitive hearing science: three memory systems, two approaches, and the ease of language understanding model

J Rönnberg, E Holmer, M Rudner - Journal of Speech, Language, and …, 2021 - ASHA
Purpose The purpose of this study was to conceptualize the subtle balancing act between
language input and prediction (cognitive priming of future input) to achieve understanding of …

The cognitive hearing science perspective on perceiving, understanding, and remembering language: The ELU model

J Rönnberg, C Signoret, J Andin, E Holmer - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The review gives an introductory description of the successive development of data patterns
based on comparisons between hearing-impaired and normal hearing participants' speech …

Hearing impairment, cognition and speech understanding: exploratory factor analyses of a comprehensive test battery for a group of hearing aid users, the n200 study

J Rönnberg, T Lunner, EHN Ng… - … Journal of Audiology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
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 …