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http://dx.doi.org/10.9718/JBER.2019.40.3.75

Study on Listening Efforts Based on Heart Rate Variability  

Kim, Hyunkyu (Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan)
Na, Youngmin (Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan)
Woo, Jihwan (Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan)
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Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research / v.40, no.3, 2019 , pp. 75-80 More about this Journal
Abstract
Listening effort represents the listener's attention, stress, required cognition resource, and mental exertion to understand a speech in various situations. Recently, it has been focused to evaluate an effectiveness of hearing aids and cochlear implant. The physiologic measures, such as heart rate, skin conductance, electroencephalography, and pupil dilation, have been used to objectively measure listening effort. In this study, we investigated the feasibility of temporal and spectral heart rate variabilities to measure listening effort to understand speech in the presence of background noise. The results showed that several heart rate variabilities significantly increased as increasing background noise level. Finally, the heart rate variability can be used as an objective tool to measure listening efforts.
Keywords
Listening effort; Hearing aids; Heart rate variability;
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