Effect of Auditory Distractors on Speech Recognition and Listening Effort.

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Everyday listening environments are filled with competing noise and distractors. Although significant research has examined the effect of competing noise on speech recognition and listening effort, little is understood about the effect of distraction. The framework for understanding effortful listening recognizes the importance of attention-related processes in speech recognition and listening effort; however, it underspecifies the role that they play, particularly with respect to distraction. The load theory of attention predicts that resources will be automatically allocated to processing a distractor, but only if perceptual load in the listening task is low enough. If perceptual load is high (i.e., listening in noise), then resources that would otherwise be allocated

SUBMITTER: Gustafson SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10440215 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep-Oct 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature