Combining Multiple Psychophysiological Measures of Listening Effort: Challenges and Recommendations

Richter, Michael M.; Buhiyan, Tanveer; Bramsløw, Lars; Innes‐Brown, Hamish; Fiedler, Lorenz; Hadley, Lauren V.; Naylor, Graham; Saunders, Gabrielle H.; Wendt, Dorothea; Whitmer, William M.; Zekveld, Adriana A.; Kramer, Sophia E.

doi:10.1055/s-0043-1767669

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“…Pupillometry is one of several physiological measures that cognitive audiology has identified which may measure different aspects of listening effort (for a recent review see Richter et al, 2023). Pupillometry is the continuous measurement of pupil size across time (for reviews see Laeng & Alnaes, 2019;Mathot, 2018;Sirois & Brisson, 2014;van der Wel & van Steenbergen, 2018).…”

Section: Acoustic Challenge and Listening Effortmentioning

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The costs (and benefits?) of effortful listening for older adults: Insights from simultaneous electrophysiology, pupillometry, and memory

Silcox,

Bennett,

Copeland

et al. 2024

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Although the impact of acoustic challenge on speech processing and memory increases as a person ages, older adults may engage in strategies that help them compensate for these demands. In the current pre-registered study, older adults (N = 48) listened to sentences—presented in quiet or in noise—that were high constraint with either expected or unexpected endings or were low constraint with unexpected endings. Pupillometry and EEG were simultaneously recorded, and subsequent sentence recognition and word recall were measured. Like young adults in prior work, we found that noise led to increases in pupil size, delayed and reduced ERP responses, and decreased recall for unexpected words. However, in contrast to prior work in young adults where a larger pupillary response predicted a recovery of the N400 at the cost of poorer memory performance in noise, older adults did not show an associated recovery of the N400 despite decreased memory performance. Instead, we found that in quiet, increases in pupil size were associated with delays in N400 onset latencies and increased recognition memory performance. In conclusion, we found that transient variation in pupil-linked arousal predicted tradeoffs between real-time lexical processing and memory that emerged at lower levels of task demand in aging. Moreover, with increased acoustic challenge, older adults still exhibited costs associated with transient increases in arousal without the corresponding benefits.

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Section: Acoustic Challenge and Listening Effortmentioning

confidence: 99%

The costs (and benefits?) of effortful listening for older adults: Insights from simultaneous electrophysiology, pupillometry, and memory

Silcox,

Bennett,

Copeland

et al. 2024

Preprint

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Effects of hearing acuity on psychophysiological responses to effortful speech perception

Keur-Huizinga,

Huizinga,

Zekveld

et al. 2024

Hearing Research

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A Multimodal Approach to Measuring Listening Effort: A Systematic Review on the Effects of Auditory Task Demand on Physiological Measures and Their Relationship

Keur-Huizinga,

Kramer,

de Geus

et al. 2024

Ear &Amp; Hearing

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Objectives: Listening effort involves the mental effort required to perceive an auditory stimulus, for example in noisy environments. Prolonged increased listening effort, for example due to impaired hearing ability, may increase risk of health complications. It is therefore important to identify valid and sensitive measures of listening effort. Physiological measures have been shown to be sensitive to auditory task demand manipulations and are considered to reflect changes in listening effort. Such measures include pupil dilation, alpha power, skin conductance level, and heart rate variability. The aim of the current systematic review was to provide an overview of studies to listening effort that used multiple physiological measures. The two main questions were: (1) what is the effect of changes in auditory task demand on simultaneously acquired physiological measures from various modalities? and (2) what is the relationship between the responses in these physiological measures? Design: Following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, relevant articles were sought in PubMed, PsycInfo, and Web of Science and by examining the references of included articles. Search iterations with different combinations of psychophysiological measures were performed in conjunction with listening effort-related search terms. Quality was assessed using the Appraisal Tool for Cross-Sectional Studies. Results: A total of 297 articles were identified from three databases, of which 27 were included. One additional article was identified from reference lists. Of the total 28 included articles, 16 included an analysis regarding the relationship between the physiological measures. The overall quality of the included studies was reasonable. Conclusions: The included studies showed that most of the physiological measures either show no effect to auditory task demand manipulations or a consistent effect in the expected direction. For example, pupil dilation increased, pre-ejection period decreased, and skin conductance level increased with increasing auditory task demand. Most of the relationships between the responses of these physiological measures were nonsignificant or weak. The physiological measures varied in their sensitivity to auditory task demand manipulations. One of the identified knowledge gaps was that the included studies mostly used tasks with high-performance levels, resulting in an underrepresentation of the physiological changes at lower performance levels. This makes it difficult to capture how the physiological responses behave across the full psychometric curve. Our results support the Framework for Understanding Effortful Listening and the need for a multimodal approach to listening effort. We furthermore discuss focus points for future studies.

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Combining Multiple Psychophysiological Measures of Listening Effort: Challenges and Recommendations

Cited by 7 publications

References 78 publications

The costs (and benefits?) of effortful listening for older adults: Insights from simultaneous electrophysiology, pupillometry, and memory

The costs (and benefits?) of effortful listening for older adults: Insights from simultaneous electrophysiology, pupillometry, and memory

Effects of hearing acuity on psychophysiological responses to effortful speech perception

A Multimodal Approach to Measuring Listening Effort: A Systematic Review on the Effects of Auditory Task Demand on Physiological Measures and Their Relationship

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