Investigating Sensitivity to Auditory Cognition in Listening Effort Assessments: A Simultaneous EEG and Pupillometry Study.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101570837 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2162-3279 (Electronic) NLM ISO Abbreviation: Brain Behav Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Original Publication: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons
    • Subject Terms:
      Electroencephalography*/methods ; Pupil*/physiology ; Attention*/physiology ; Speech Perception*/physiology ; Cognition*/physiology; Humans ; Male ; Adult ; Female ; Young Adult ; Reaction Time/physiology ; Auditory Perception/physiology
    • Abstract:
      Background: It is still not fully explained what kind of cognitive sources the methods used in the assessment of listening effort are more sensitive to and how these measurement results are related to each other. The aim of the study is to ascertain which neural resources crucial for listening effort are most sensitive to objective measurement methods using differently degraded speech stimuli.
      Methods: A total of 49 individuals between the ages of 19 and 34 with normal hearing participated in the study. In the first stage, simultaneous pupillometry, electroencephalogram (EEG), and single-task paradigm reaction time (RT) measurements were made during the challenging listening and repetition task with noise-vocoded speech. Two speech reception thresholds (SRT) (50% and 80%) for two vocoding conditions (16 and 6 channels) were collected, resulting in 4 conditions. In the second stage, the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) and the test of attention in listening (TAIL) were applied. Stepwise linear regression analyses were conducted to examine the predictors of listening effort measurements.
      Results: A significant difference was found between 6 and 16 channel stimuli in both pupil dilation change and EEG alpha band power change. In the hardest listening condition, whereas RAVLT scores are significant predictors of pupil dilation change, TAIL scores are significant predictors of EEG alpha power. As the stimulus difficulty decreased, the factors that predicted both EEG and pupillometry results decreased. In the single-task paradigm, a significant regression model could not be obtained at all four difficulty levels.
      Conclusion: As a result of the study, it was found that the pupil dilation change was more sensitive to auditory memory skills and the EEG alpha power change was more sensitive to auditory attention skills. To our knowledge, this study is the first to investigate the sensitivity of different listening effort measurement methods to auditory cognitive skills.
      (© 2024 The Author(s). Brain and Behavior published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.)
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    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: auditory attention; auditory cognition; listening effort; pupillometry; working memory
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20241101 Date Completed: 20241101 Latest Revision: 20241103
    • Publication Date:
      20241104
    • Accession Number:
      PMC11527829
    • Accession Number:
      10.1002/brb3.70135
    • Accession Number:
      39482842