Revisiting the target-masker linguistic similarity hypothesis
The linguistic similarity hypothesis states that it is more difficult to segregate target and masker speech when they are linguistically similar…
IN PRINCIPLE ACCEPTANCE - Impaired Performance in Noise - Disentangling Listening Effort from the Irrelevant Speech Effect
Noise can reduce the intelligibility of spoken language and increase the effort necessary to understand speech…
Recall of Speech is Impaired by Subsequent Masking Noise - A Replication of Experiment 2
The presence of masking noise can impair speech intelligibility and increase the attentional and cognitive resources necessary to understand speech…
Understanding Speech amid the Jingle and Jangle - Recommendations for Improving Measurement Practices in Listening Effort Research
The latent constructs psychologists study are typically not directly accessible, so researchers must design measurement instruments that are intended to provide insights about those constructs. Construct validation—assessing whether instruments measure what they intend to—is therefore critical for ensuring that the conclusions we draw actually reflect the intended phenomena…
What accounts for individual differences in susceptibility to the McGurk effect?
The McGurk effect is a classic audiovisual speech illusion in which discrepant auditory and visual syllables can lead to a fused percept (e.g., an auditory /bɑ/ paired with a visual /gɑ/ often leads to the perception of /dɑ/). The McGurk effect is robust and easily replicated in pooled group data, but there is tremendous variability in the extent to which individual participants are susceptible to it…