The impact of instructions on individual prioritization strategies in a dual-task paradigm for listening effort.
• Dual-task paradigms are commonly used to evaluate listening effort. • Dual-task interference provides insight into individual prioritization strategies. • Prioritization instructions failed to ensure focus on the primary task. • Individual prioritization strategies varied across listening conditio...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Communication Disorders Vol. 118 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Nov2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=189517409&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 189517409 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 00219924 GYY jtl: Journal of Communication Disorders issn: 00219924 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Nov2025 vid: 118 pid: 467 pub: Elsevier B.V. place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 189517409 189517409 189517409 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106571 189517409 ppct: 1 formats: tig: atl: The impact of instructions on individual prioritization strategies in a dual-task paradigm for listening effort. aug: au: Kestens, Katrien Lepla, Emma Vandoorne, Flore Ceuleers, Dorien Van Goylen, Louise Keppler, Hannah affil: Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Ghent University, Corneel Heymanslaan 10 (2P1), 9000 Ghent, Belgium sug: subj: Speech Perception Task Performance and Analysis Listening Listening Effort Evaluation Selective Attention Human Male Female Adult Middle Age Comparative Studies Descriptive Statistics Fisher's Exact Test Neuropsychology Hearing Cognition Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Male Female ab: • Dual-task paradigms are commonly used to evaluate listening effort. • Dual-task interference provides insight into individual prioritization strategies. • Prioritization instructions failed to ensure focus on the primary task. • Individual prioritization strategies varied across listening conditions. • Findings question the current use of listening effort dual-task paradigms. This study examined the impact of instructions on the prioritization strategy employed by individuals during a listening effort dual-task paradigm. The dual-task paradigm consisted of a primary speech understanding task in different listening conditions and a secondary visual memory task, both performed separately (baseline) and simultaneously (dual-task). Twenty-three normal-hearing participants (mean age: 36.8 years; 14 females) were directed to prioritize the primary speech understanding task in the dual-task condition, whereas another twenty-three (matched for age, gender, and education level) received no specific instructions regarding task priority. Both groups performed the dual-task paradigm twice (mean interval: 14.8 days). Patterns of dual-task interference were assessed by plotting the dual-task effect of the primary and secondary task against each other. Fisher's exact tests were used to assess whether there was an association between interference patterns and group (non-prioritizing and prioritizing) across all listening conditions and test sessions. No statistically significant association was found between the pattern of dual-task interference and the group to which the participants belong for any of the listening conditions and test sessions. Descriptive analysis revealed no consistent strategy use within individuals across listening conditions and test sessions, suggesting a lack of a uniform approach regardless of the given instructions. Providing prioritization instructions was insufficient to ensure that an individual will mainly focus on the primary task and consistently adhere to this strategy across listening conditions and test sessions. These results raised reservations about the current usage of dual-task paradigms for listening effort. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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