Everyday conversation frequently includes challenges to the clarity of the acoustic speech
signal, including hearing impairment, background noise, and foreign accents. Although an …

Importance Epidemiologic research on the possible link between age-related hearing loss
(ARHL) and cognitive decline and dementia has produced inconsistent results. Clarifying …

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 …

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) …

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 …

Hearing loss with increasing age adversely affects the ability to understand speech, an effect
that results partly from reduced audibility. The aims of this study were to establish whether …

Published studies assessing the association between cognitive performance and speech-in-
noise (SiN) perception examine different aspects of each, test different listeners, and often …

Several mechanisms of predictive language processing have been proposed. The possible
influence of mediating factors such as working memory and processing speed, however, has …

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 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 …