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Listening effort in people with hearing impairment
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The purpose of this research is to understand the effort needed to understand speech if hearing is impaired. Listening effort is higher in people with hearing impairment and has wide-ranging negative consequences across many aspects of a person’s life. The goal of this project is to explore factors that make listening effortful, with special focus on the need to repair perceptual mistakes by relying on context.
Male or Female
18 years and over
Inclusion Criteria:
• There are two categories of participants: either people with cochlear implant (one or two cochlear implants) or people with normal hearing in both ears. All participants must be 40-75 years old.
Exclusion Criteria:
• non native English speakers
Ear, Nose & Throat
cochlear implant, hearing loss, listening
Katherine Teece - henn0158@umn.edu
Matthew Winn
STUDY00004150