Pupillometry reveals differences in cognitive demands of listening to face mask-attenuated speech.

Autor: Carraturo S; Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri 63130, USA., McLaughlin DJ; Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastian, Basque Country 20009, Spain., Peelle JE; Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA., Van Engen KJ; Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri 63130, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America [J Acoust Soc Am] 2023 Dec 01; Vol. 154 (6), pp. 3973-3985.
DOI: 10.1121/10.0023953
Abstrakt: Face masks offer essential protection but also interfere with speech communication. Here, audio-only sentences spoken through four types of masks were presented in noise to young adult listeners. Pupil dilation (an index of cognitive demand), intelligibility, and subjective effort and performance ratings were collected. Dilation increased in response to each mask relative to the no-mask condition and differed significantly where acoustic attenuation was most prominent. These results suggest that the acoustic impact of the mask drives not only the intelligibility of speech, but also the cognitive demands of listening. Subjective effort ratings reflected the same trends as the pupil data.
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Databáze: MEDLINE