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Vocal Emotion Communication With Cochlear Implants

Perception and Production of Emotional Prosody With Cochlear Implants

Who can join

Ages 6 to 80 · All sexes · Healthy volunteers welcome

Inclusion Criteria:

* Prelingually deaf children with cochlear implants

  * Postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants
  * Normally hearing children
  * Normally hearing adults

Exclusion Criteria:

* Non-native speakers of American English

  * Prelingually deaf individuals who receive cochlear implants after age 12
  * Adults unable to pass a basic cognitive screen

About the study

Patients with hearing loss who use cochlear implants (CIs) show significant deficits and strong unexplained intersubject variability in their perception and production of spoken emotions in speech. This project will investigate the hypothesis that "cue-weighting", or how patients utilize the different acoustic cues to emotion, accounts for significant variance in emotional communication with CIs. The results will focus on children with CIs, but parallel measures in postlingually deaf adults with CIs will be made, ensuring that results of these studies benefit social communication by CI patients across the lifespan by informing the development of technological innovations and improved clinical protocols.

What is being tested

• Perception of acoustic cues to emotion (behavioral)
• Production of acoustic cues to emotion (behavioral)

Sponsor: Father Flanagan's Boys' Home · Participants: 255 · Started: Jul 1, 2022

Contact the study team

• Monita Chatterjee, Ph.D. · Phone: 8474672760
• Dawna E Lewis, Ph.D. · Phone: 531-355-6607

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT05486637

Locations in the U.S.

Conditions

• Sensorineural Hearing Loss
• Hearing Loss

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.