Exploring short-term memory and listening effort in two-talker conversations: The influence of soft and moderate background noise.

ABSTRACT: Listening to conversations and remembering their content is a highly demanding task, especially in noisy environments. Previous research has mainly focused on short-term memory using simple cognitive tasks with unrelated words or digits. The present study investigates the listeners' short-term memory and listening effort in conversations under different listening conditions, with and without soft or moderate noise. To this end, participants were administered a dual-task paradigm, including a primary listening task, in which conversations between two talkers were presented, and an unrelated secondary task. In Experiment 1, this secondary task was a visual number-judgment task, whereas in Experiments 2 and 3, it was a vibrotactile pattern recognition task. All experiments were conducted in a

SUBMITTER: Mohanathasan C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11801578 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature