Vocal Emotion Communication With Cochlear Implants

Recruiting now · Early Phase 1

Conditions studied: Cochlear Hearing Loss

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05486637

Run by

Father Flanagan's Boys' Home

People needed

255

Starts

2022-07-01

Expected to finish

2027-06-30

Last updated by the study team

2025-09-19

Who can join

Age: 6 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Prelingually deaf children with cochlear implants
• Postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants
• Normally hearing children
• Normally hearing adults

You may not qualify if…

• Non-native speakers of American English
• Prelingually deaf individuals who receive cochlear implants after age 12
• Adults unable to pass a basic cognitive screen

Where it is running

• Arizona State University — Tempe, Arizona, United States (enrolling)
• House Institute Foundation — Los Angeles, California, United States (enrolling)
• Boys Town National Research Hospital — Omaha, Nebraska, United States (enrolling)
• Northwestern University — Evanston, Illinois, United States

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