Conscious cognitive effort in cognitive control

J Shepherd - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cognitive effort is thought to be familiar in everyday life, ubiquitous across multiple variations
of task and circumstance, and integral to cost/benefit computations that are themselves …

Quantifying the effects of motivation on listening effort: A systematic review and meta-analysis

PJ Carolan, A Heinrich, KJ Munro… - Trends in …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Motivation influences the amount of listening effort (LE) exerted or experienced under
challenging conditions, such as in high-noise environments. This systematic review 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 …

Cortical alpha oscillations in cochlear implant users reflect subjective listening effort during speech-in-noise perception

BT Paul, J Chen, T Le, V Lin, A Dimitrijevic - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Listening to speech in noise is effortful for individuals with hearing loss, even if they have
received a hearing prosthesis such as a hearing aid or cochlear implant (CI). At present, little …

“Unattended, distracting or irrelevant”: Theoretical implications of terminological choices in auditory selective attention research

S Makov, D Pinto, PH Yahav, LM Miller, EZ Golumbic - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
For seventy years, auditory selective attention research has focused on studying the
cognitive mechanisms of prioritizing the processing a 'main'task-relevant stimulus, in the …

A comparison of simultaneously-obtained measures of listening effort: Pupil dilation, verbal response time and self-rating

C Visentin, C Valzolgher, M Pellegatti… - … Journal of Audiology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Objective The aim of this study was to assess to what extent simultaneously-obtained
measures of listening effort (task-evoked pupil dilation, verbal response time [RT], and self …

Neural speech tracking and auditory attention decoding in everyday life

L Straetmans, K Adiloglu, S Debener - Frontiers in human …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction In our complex world, the auditory system plays a crucial role in perceiving and
processing our environment. Humans are able to segment and stream concurrent auditory …

Understanding speech amid the jingle and jangle: Recommendations for improving measurement practices in listening effort research

JF Strand, L Ray, NH Dillman-Hasso… - Auditory perception & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The latent constructs psychologists study are typically not directly accessible, so researchers
must design measurement instruments that are intended to provide insights about those …

Neural α oscillations and pupil size differentially index cognitive demand under competing audiovisual task conditions

F Kraus, S Tune, J Obleser… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Cognitive demand is thought to modulate two often used, but rarely combined, measures:
pupil size and neural α (8–12 Hz) oscillatory power. However, it is unclear whether these …

Pupil size sensitivity to listening demand depends on motivational state

F Kraus, J Obleser, B Herrmann - Eneuro, 2023 - eneuro.org
Motivation plays a role when a listener needs to understand speech under acoustically
demanding conditions. Previous work has demonstrated pupil-linked arousal being …