Open AccessMeasures of Listening Effort Are Multidimensional
Author(s) -
Sara Alhanbali,
Piers Dawes,
Rebecca E. Millman,
Kevin J. Munro
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.0000000000000697
Subject(s) - active listening , psychology , reliability (semiconductor) , audiology , intraclass correlation , statistics , psychometrics , developmental psychology , mathematics , power (physics) , medicine , communication , physics , quantum mechanics
Listening effort can be defined as the cognitive resources required to perform a listening task. The literature on listening effort is as confusing as it is voluminous: measures of listening effort rarely correlate with each other and sometimes result in contradictory findings. Here, we directly compared simultaneously recorded multimodal measures of listening effort. After establishing the reliability of the measures, we investigated validity by quantifying correlations between measures and then grouping-related measures through factor analysis.