Listening is referred to by many scholars as the most important as well as the most complicated skill in the language, which can cause mental fatigue in the learners. This study was an attempt to investigate the relationship between L2 listening comprehension and listening fatigue among Iranian EFL learners. For this purpose, 86 intermediate and upper-intermediate Iranian EFL learners randomly ...

Suboptimal listening conditions interfere with listeners' on-line comprehension. A degraded source signal, noise that interferes with sound transmission, and/or listeners' cognitive or linguistic limitations are examples of adverse listening conditions. Few studies have explored the interaction of these factors in pediatric populations. Yet, they represent an increasing challenge in educational...

Listening to speech in adverse conditions can be challenging and effortful, especially for older adults. This study examined age-related differences effortful listening by recording changes the task-evoked pupil response (TEPR; a physiological marker of effort) both at level sentence processing over entire course task. A total 65 (32 young adults, 33 adults) participants performed recognition t...

ABSTRACT A method is developed with the aims of: 1) providing an assessment of selfand inter-listener consistency of key presses, represented along a timeline, in response to the musical listening task of identifying the beginning of phrases in a piece, 2) identifying an ‘interpretation’ for each listener, and 3) using these to identify groups of responses. This method leads to the quantitative...

Music listening is associated with both pain- and stress-reducing effects. However, the effects of music listening in daily life remain understudied, and the psycho-biological mechanisms underlying the health-beneficial effect of music listening remain unknown. We examined the effects of music listening on pain and stress in daily life in a sample of women with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS; i.e.,...

This paper investigates how to automatically create a dialogue control component of a listening agent to reduce the current high cost of manually creating such components. We collected a large number of listening-oriented dialogues with their user satisfaction ratings and used them to create a dialogue control component using partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs), which can le...

The present study aimed to examine any possible relevance of perfectionism as a personal trait variable, in moderating the effectiveness of meta-cognitive instruction on bottom-up and top-down sub-processes of listening comprehension with a sample of EFL learners in Iranian context. To this end, 94 female EFL learners were selected from among 136 EFL learners at Andisheh Language Institute in M...

OBJECTIVES We aim to review trials of the effectiveness of music listening in reducing depressive symptoms in adults, and identify areas requiring further study. BACKGROUND Little is known about the efficacy of music listening in the mediation of depressive symptoms. METHODS We systematically search 9 databases and reviewed 17 studies included randomized controlled and quasi-experimental tr...

Understanding speech in noise (SiN) is a complex task involving sensory encoding and cognitive resources including working memory and attention. Previous work has shown that brain oscillations, particularly alpha rhythms (8-12 Hz) play important roles in sensory processes involving working memory and attention. However, no previous study has examined brain oscillations during performance of a c...

OBJECTIVES In this study, the authors assessed the potential utility of a recently developed questionnaire (Evaluation of Children's Listening and Processing Skills [ECLiPS]) for supporting the clinical assessment of children referred for auditory processing disorder (APD). DESIGN A total of 49 children (35 referred for APD assessment and 14 from mainstream schools) were assessed for auditory...