New way to think about cognitive listening

It is rare that speech is heard in ideal listening conditions because we commonly face acoustic challenges such as everyday background noise. 

Listening challenges are also faced by individuals with hearing impairment and those who listen to a language that is not native to them.

'Cognitive listening' refers to the notion that speech perception in challenging conditions such as a noisy background, accented speech, and hearing loss is underpinned by cognitive processes such as working memory and attention.

 Current knowledge has now reached a point where a theoretical framework is necessary to organize an abundance of new data coming from the hearing, cognitive, and linguistic sciences and to generate new ideas and predictions.

In response to this need, we offer a theoretical perspective that integrates resource engagement and the contributions of perceptual, cognitive, and linguistic processes toward understanding speech in a variety of listening conditions.

https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(25)00253-0

https://sciencemission.com/Reconceptualizing-cognitive-listening