The measurement of cognitive resource allocation during listening, or listening effort,
provides valuable insight in the factors influencing auditory processing. In recent years …

Due to advances in medical knowledge the population of older adults struggling with issues
of aging like Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and stroke is growing …

Human Memory, 4th edition, provides a comprehensive overview of research and theory on
human memory. Written in an engaging style, the book is divided into three sections …

The human task-evoked pupillary response provides a sensitive physiological index of the
intensity and online resource demands of numerous cognitive processes (eg, memory …

Music has the ability to evoke different emotions in people, which is reflected in their
physiological signals. Advances in affective computing have introduced computational …

Human listeners exhibit marked sensitivity to familiar music, perhaps most readily revealed
by popular “name that tune” games, in which listeners often succeed in recognizing a …

The endogenous opioid system has been implicated during experiences of pleasure (ie,
from food or sex). Music can elicit intense emotional and bodily sensations of pleasure …

The capacity to entrain motor action to rhythmic auditory stimulation is highly developed in
humans and extremely limited in our closest relatives. An important aspect of auditory-motor …

The “cocktail party” problem—how a listener perceives speech in noisy environments—is
typically studied using speech (multi-talker babble) or noise maskers. However, realistic …

Background The pupillary light reflex is the main mechanism that regulates the pupillary
diameter; it is controlled by the autonomic system and mediated by subcortical pathways. In …