RECRUITING

Vocal Emotion Communication With Cochlear Implants

Study Overview

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Description

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.

Official Title

Perception and Production of Emotional Prosody With Cochlear Implants

Quick Facts

Study Start:2022-07-01
Study Completion:2027-06-30
Study Type:Not specified
Phase:Not Applicable
Enrollment:Not specified
Status:RECRUITING

Study ID

NCT05486637

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Ages Eligible for Study:6 Years to 80 Years
Sexes Eligible for Study:ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:Yes
Standard Ages:CHILD, ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Inclusion CriteriaExclusion Criteria
  1. * Prelingually deaf children with cochlear implants
  2. * Postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants
  3. * Normally hearing children
  4. * Normally hearing adults
  1. * Non-native speakers of American English
  2. * Prelingually deaf individuals who receive cochlear implants after age 12
  3. * Adults unable to pass a basic cognitive screen

Contacts and Locations

Study Contact

Monita Chatterjee, Ph.D.
CONTACT
531-355-5069
monita.chatterjee@boystown.org
Dawna E Lewis, Ph.D.
CONTACT
531-355-6607
dawna.lewis@boystown.org

Principal Investigator

Monita Chatterjee, Ph.D.
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home

Study Locations (Sites)

Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, 85287
United States
Boys Town National Research Hospital
Omaha, Nebraska, 68131
United States

Collaborators and Investigators

Sponsor: Father Flanagan's Boys' Home

  • Monita Chatterjee, Ph.D., PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Father Flanagan's Boys' Home

Study Record Dates

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Study Registration Dates

Study Start Date2022-07-01
Study Completion Date2027-06-30

Study Record Updates

Study Start Date2022-07-01
Study Completion Date2027-06-30

Terms related to this study

Keywords Provided by Researchers

  • Emotional prosody
  • Acoustic cues
  • Perception
  • Production
  • Children
  • Development
  • Cochlear Implant
  • Hearing Loss

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

  • Cochlear Hearing Loss