Listening Effort During Sentence Processing Is Increased for Non-native Listeners: A Pupillometry Study.

ABSTRACT: Current evidence demonstrates that even though some non-native listeners can achieve native-like performance for speech perception tasks in quiet, the presence of a background noise is much more detrimental to speech intelligibility for non-native compared to native listeners. Even when performance is equated across groups, it is likely that greater listening effort is required for non-native listeners. Importantly, the added listening effort might result in increased fatigue and a reduced ability to successfully perform multiple tasks simultaneously. Task-evoked pupil responses have been demonstrated to be a reliable measure of cognitive effort and can be useful in clarifying those aspects. In this study we compared the pupil response for 23 native English speakers and 27 Italian speakers

SUBMITTER: Borghini G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5859302 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature