Barbara Ohlenforst
Impact of stimulus-related factors and hearing impairment on listening effort as indicated by pupil dilation
Ohlenforst, Barbara; Zekveld, Adriana A.; Lunner, Thomas; Wendt, Dorothea; Naylor, Graham; Wang, Yang; Versfeld, Niek J.; Kramer, Sophia E.
Authors
Adriana A. Zekveld
Thomas Lunner
Dorothea Wendt
GRAHAM NAYLOR GRAHAM.NAYLOR@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Hearing Sciences
Yang Wang
Niek J. Versfeld
Sophia E. Kramer
Abstract
Previous research has reported effects of masker type and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) on listening effort, as indicated by the peak pupil dilation (PPD) relative to baseline during speech recognition. At about 50% correct sentence recognition performance, increasing SNRs generally results in declining PPDs, indicating reduced effort. However, the decline in PPD over SNRs has been observed to be less pronounced for hearing-impaired (HI) compared to normal-hearing (NH) listeners. The presence of a competing talker during speech recognition generally resulted in larger PPDs as compared to the presence of a fluctuating or stationary background noise. The aim of the present study was to examine the interplay between hearing-status, a broad range of SNRs corresponding to sentence recognition performance varying from 0 to 100% correct, and different masker types (stationary noise and single-talker masker) on the PPD during speech perception. Twenty-five HI and 32 age-matched NH participants listened to sentences across a broad range of SNRs, masked with speech from a single talker (−25 dB to +15 dB SNR) or with stationary noise (−12 dB to +16 dB). Correct sentence recognition scores and pupil responses were recorded during stimulus presentation. With a stationary masker, NH listeners show maximum PPD across a relatively narrow range of low SNRs, while HI listeners show relatively large PPD across a wide range of ecological SNRs. With the single-talker masker, maximum PPD was observed in the mid-range of SNRs around 50% correct sentence recognition performance, while smaller PPDs were observed at lower and higher SNRs. Mixed-model ANOVAs revealed significant interactions between hearing-status and SNR on the PPD for both masker types. Our data show a different pattern of PPDs across SNRs between groups, which indicates that listening and the allocation of effort during listening in daily life environments may be different for NH and HI listeners.
Citation
Ohlenforst, B., Zekveld, A. A., Lunner, T., Wendt, D., Naylor, G., Wang, Y., …Kramer, S. E. (2017). Impact of stimulus-related factors and hearing impairment on listening effort as indicated by pupil dilation. Hearing Research, 351, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2017.05.012
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | May 23, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | May 25, 2017 |
Publication Date | Aug 31, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Jul 26, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 26, 2017 |
Journal | Hearing Research |
Print ISSN | 0378-5955 |
Electronic ISSN | 1878-5891 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 351 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2017.05.012 |
Keywords | Hearing impairment, Speech recognition, Pupil dilation, Listening effort, Signal-to-noise ratio |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/880637 |
Publisher URL | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378595516304658 |
Contract Date | Jul 26, 2017 |
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