Open AccessIn a Concurrent Memory and Auditory Perception Task, the Pupil Dilation Response Is More Sensitive to Memory Load Than to Auditory Stimulus Characteristics
Author(s) -
Adriana A. Zekveld,
Sophia E. Kramer,
Jerker Rönnberg,
Mary Rudner
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ear and hearing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.577
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1538-4667
pISSN - 0196-0202
DOI - 10.1097/aud.0000000000000612
Subject(s) - pupillary response , psychology , recall , sentence , recall test , active listening , cognitive psychology , stimulus (psychology) , serial position effect , free recall , audiology , perception , communication , computer science , pupil , natural language processing , neuroscience , medicine
Speech understanding may be cognitively demanding, but it can be enhanced when semantically related text cues precede auditory sentences. The present study aimed to determine whether (a) providing text cues reduces pupil dilation, a measure of cognitive load, during listening to sentences, (b) repeating the sentences aloud affects recall accuracy and pupil dilation during recall of cue words, and (c) semantic relatedness between cues and sentences affects recall accuracy and pupil dilation during recall of cue words.