The Presence of Another Individual Influences Listening Effort, But Not Performance.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aim of this study was to modify a speech perception in noise test to assess whether the presence of another individual (copresence), relative to being alone, affected listening performance and effort expenditure. Furthermore, this study assessed if the effect of the other individual's presence on listening effort was influenced by the difficulty of the task and whether participants had to repeat the sentences they listened to or not.

Design

Thirty-four young, normal-hearing participants (mean age: 24.7 years) listened to spoken Dutch sentences that were masked with a stationary noise masker and presented through a loudspeaker. The participants alternated between repeating sentences (active condition) and not repeating sentences (passive condition). They did th

SUBMITTER: Pielage H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8542087 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov-Dec 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature