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Vocal Emotion Communication With Cochlear Implants

Father Flanagan's Boys' Home · with Arizona State University, House Institute Foundation · NCT05486637

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Key facts

Compensation
Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
Who can join
Ages 6–80 · All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Study type
Interventional · Early Phase 1
Target enrollment
255
US sites recruiting
3
Study start
July 1, 2022
Record last updated
September 19, 2025

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What the study is about

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.

Being studied: Perception of acoustic cues to emotion; Production of acoustic cues to emotion

Conditions: Cochlear Hearing Loss

Eligibility criteria

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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

Recruiting US locations

  • Arizona State University

    Tempe, AZ 85287

    Site contact: Xin Luo, Ph.D. · 480-965-9251 · xinluo@asu.edu

  • House Institute Foundation

    Los Angeles, CA 90017

    Site contact: John J Galvin, Ph.D. · jgalvin@hifla.org

  • Boys Town National Research Hospital

    Omaha, NE 68131

    Site contact: Monita Chatterjee, Ph.D. · 531-355-5069 · monita.chatterjee@boystown.org

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • Monita Chatterjee, Ph.D. · 8474672760 · monita.chatterjee@northwestern.edu
  • Dawna E Lewis, Ph.D. · 531-355-6607 · dawna.lewis@boystown.org
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