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effortfulness

effortfulness Effortfulness refers to the increased mental work needed when a signal is hard to extract, such as speech in a complex background.

Effortfulness refers to the increased mental work needed when a signal is hard to extract, such as speech in a complex background. In this view, more cognitive resources are used for basic acoustic and phonological processing, leaving fewer resources available for deeper semantic processing.