Lots of relevant papers in this research topic.
Cognitive aging and hearing acuity: Modeling spoken language comprehension→
/Art Wingfield and colleages weigh in on the Ease of Language Understanding (ELU) model. Must-read for anyone interested in listening effort.
Divided attention disrupts perceptual encoding during speech recognition→
/Adding cognitive load increased the likelihood that listeners would select a word acoustically similar to the target even though its frequency was lower than that of the target. Thus, there was no evidence that cognitive load led to a high-frequency response bias. Rather, cognitive load seems to disrupt sublexical encoding, possibly by impairing perceptual acuity at the auditory periphery.
Cortical activity predicts which older adults recognize speech in noise→
/New paper from Kenny Vaden and the Eckert lab on spoken word recognition in older adults implicating the cingulo-opercular network in correct recognition.
Neural alpha dynamics in younger and older listeners reflect acoustic challenges→
/Alpha oscillations, listening effort, and age from the Obleser lab.