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  • Auditory Neuroscience
  • Speech Perception Research
  • Clinical Audiology

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  • Effortful speech processing in hearing-impaired (HI) individuals can impede hearing rehabilitation.
  • Pupil dilation is a potential objective measure for assessing cognitive effort in speech comprehension.
  • Heterogeneity within clinical populations necessitates nuanced measurement approaches.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate pupil dilation as a measure of speech comprehension effort in sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) patients using cochlear implants (CIs).
  • To compare pupillary responses between experienced CI users and age-matched normal-hearing (NH) controls during auditory lexical decision tasks.
  • To explore interindividual variability in pupil dilation patterns among CI users as a reflection of diverse effort sources.

Main Methods:

  • Auditory lexical decision task administered to 15 experienced CI users and 14 NH controls.
  • Pupil dilation was recorded and analyzed using growth curve analysis.
  • Follow-up analyses examined the relationship between speech perception complexity and effort.

Main Results:

  • NH listeners exhibited a homogenous pupil dilation pattern reflecting task demands.
  • CI listeners displayed significant variability in pupil dilation curve morphology, suggesting diverse effort sources.
  • Individual variability in CI users may indicate different loci and magnitudes of effort.

Conclusions:

  • Pupil dilation can capture interindividual variability in speech comprehension effort among HI listeners with CIs.
  • Variability in CI users' responses highlights the complexity of effort in hearing loss.
  • Future research should employ paradigms differentiating task demands and capturing individual temporal pupil responses to understand effort variations.