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Speech Recognition and Listening Effort in Cochlear Implant Recipients and Normal-Hearing Listeners

The outcome of cochlear implantation is typically assessed by speech recognition tests in quiet and in noise. Many cochlear implant recipients reveal satisfactory speech recognition especially in quiet situations. However, since cochlear implants provide only limited spectro-temporal cues the effort...

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Autores principales: Abdel-Latif, Khaled H. A., Meister, Hartmut
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8867819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35221883
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.725412
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description The outcome of cochlear implantation is typically assessed by speech recognition tests in quiet and in noise. Many cochlear implant recipients reveal satisfactory speech recognition especially in quiet situations. However, since cochlear implants provide only limited spectro-temporal cues the effort associated with understanding speech might be increased. In this respect, measures of listening effort could give important extra information regarding the outcome of cochlear implantation. In order to shed light on this topic and to gain knowledge for clinical applications we compared speech recognition and listening effort in cochlear implants (CI) recipients and age-matched normal-hearing listeners while considering potential influential factors, such as cognitive abilities. Importantly, we estimated speech recognition functions for both listener groups and compared listening effort at similar performance level. Therefore, a subjective listening effort test (adaptive scaling, “ACALES”) as well as an objective test (dual-task paradigm) were applied and compared. Regarding speech recognition CI users needed about 4 dB better signal-to-noise ratio to reach the same performance level of 50% as NH listeners and even 5 dB better SNR to reach 80% speech recognition revealing shallower psychometric functions in the CI listeners. However, when targeting a fixed speech intelligibility of 50 and 80%, respectively, CI users and normal hearing listeners did not differ significantly in terms of listening effort. This applied for both the subjective and the objective estimation. Outcome for subjective and objective listening effort was not correlated with each other nor with age or cognitive abilities of the listeners. This study did not give evidence that CI users and NH listeners differ in terms of listening effort – at least when the same performance level is considered. In contrast, both listener groups showed large inter-individual differences in effort determined with the subjective scaling and the objective dual-task. Potential clinical implications of how to assess listening effort as an outcome measure for hearing rehabilitation are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-88678192022-02-25 Speech Recognition and Listening Effort in Cochlear Implant Recipients and Normal-Hearing Listeners Abdel-Latif, Khaled H. A. Meister, Hartmut Front Neurosci Neuroscience The outcome of cochlear implantation is typically assessed by speech recognition tests in quiet and in noise. Many cochlear implant recipients reveal satisfactory speech recognition especially in quiet situations. However, since cochlear implants provide only limited spectro-temporal cues the effort associated with understanding speech might be increased. In this respect, measures of listening effort could give important extra information regarding the outcome of cochlear implantation. In order to shed light on this topic and to gain knowledge for clinical applications we compared speech recognition and listening effort in cochlear implants (CI) recipients and age-matched normal-hearing listeners while considering potential influential factors, such as cognitive abilities. Importantly, we estimated speech recognition functions for both listener groups and compared listening effort at similar performance level. Therefore, a subjective listening effort test (adaptive scaling, “ACALES”) as well as an objective test (dual-task paradigm) were applied and compared. Regarding speech recognition CI users needed about 4 dB better signal-to-noise ratio to reach the same performance level of 50% as NH listeners and even 5 dB better SNR to reach 80% speech recognition revealing shallower psychometric functions in the CI listeners. However, when targeting a fixed speech intelligibility of 50 and 80%, respectively, CI users and normal hearing listeners did not differ significantly in terms of listening effort. This applied for both the subjective and the objective estimation. Outcome for subjective and objective listening effort was not correlated with each other nor with age or cognitive abilities of the listeners. This study did not give evidence that CI users and NH listeners differ in terms of listening effort – at least when the same performance level is considered. In contrast, both listener groups showed large inter-individual differences in effort determined with the subjective scaling and the objective dual-task. Potential clinical implications of how to assess listening effort as an outcome measure for hearing rehabilitation are discussed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8867819/ /pubmed/35221883 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.725412 Text en Copyright © 2022 Abdel-Latif and Meister. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Speech Recognition and Listening Effort in Cochlear Implant Recipients and Normal-Hearing Listeners
title Speech Recognition and Listening Effort in Cochlear Implant Recipients and Normal-Hearing Listeners
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title_fullStr Speech Recognition and Listening Effort in Cochlear Implant Recipients and Normal-Hearing Listeners
title_full_unstemmed Speech Recognition and Listening Effort in Cochlear Implant Recipients and Normal-Hearing Listeners
title_short Speech Recognition and Listening Effort in Cochlear Implant Recipients and Normal-Hearing Listeners
title_sort speech recognition and listening effort in cochlear implant recipients and normal-hearing listeners
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8867819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35221883
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