Pupillary Measures of the Cognitive Effort in Auditory Novel Word Processing and Short-Term Retention.

ABSTRACT: The use of the task-evoked pupillary responses (TEPRs) methodology is emerging in the psycholinguistics literature, as a sensitive, reliable and dynamic psychophysiological measure of the cognitive effort produced by various aspects of language processing. This preliminary study aimed to assess the functionality and effectiveness of a TEPRs design for measuring the cognitive effort required for the processing and spontaneous (non-explicitly prompted) short-term retention of novel phonological forms presented auditorily. Twenty-four young adult participants (aged 19-28 years, M = 20.3, SD = 2.13) were auditorily presented with a series of pseudowords differing in their number of syllables and their syllabic complexity. Then, they were asked to produce a response to a delayed pseudoword-colo

SUBMITTER: Lopez-Ornat S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6278650 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature