Best practices and advice for using pupillometry to measure listening effort: An introduction for those who want to get started

MB Winn, D Wendt, T Koelewijn… - Trends in …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Within the field of hearing science, pupillometry is a widely used method for quantifying
listening effort. Its use in research is growing exponentially, and many labs are (considering) …

The pupil dilation response to auditory stimuli: Current state of knowledge

AA Zekveld, T Koelewijn, SE Kramer - Trends in hearing, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The measurement of cognitive resource allocation during listening, or listening effort,
provides valuable insight in the factors influencing auditory processing. In recent years …

Measures of listening effort are multidimensional

S Alhanbali, P Dawes, RE Millman, KJ Munro - Ear and Hearing, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Listening effort can be defined as the cognitive resources required to perform a
listening task. The literature on listening effort is as confusing as it is voluminous: measures …

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 …

Listening effort is not the same as speech intelligibility score

MB Winn, KH Teece - Trends in Hearing, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Listening effort is a valuable and important notion to measure because it is among the
primary complaints of people with hearing loss. It is tempting and intuitive to accept speech …

Toward a more comprehensive understanding of the impact of masker type and signal-to-noise ratio on the pupillary response while performing a speech-in-noise test

D Wendt, T Koelewijn, P Książek, SE Kramer, T Lunner - Hearing research, 2018 - Elsevier
Difficulties arising in everyday speech communication often result from the acoustical
environment, which may contain interfering background noise or competing speakers. Thus …

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 …

Hearing aid noise reduction lowers the sustained listening effort during continuous speech in noise—A combined pupillometry and EEG study

L Fiedler, TS Ala, C Graversen, E Alickovic… - Ear and …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: The investigation of auditory cognitive processes recently moved from strictly
controlled, trial-based paradigms toward the presentation of continuous speech. This also …

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 …

Relations between self-reported daily-life fatigue, hearing status, and pupil dilation during a speech perception in noise task

Y Wang, G Naylor, SE Kramer, AA Zekveld… - Ear and …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Objective: People with hearing impairment are likely to experience higher levels of fatigue
because of effortful listening in daily communication. This hearing-related fatigue might not …