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Cochlear Implants and Listening Effort: the Interaction of Cognitive and Sensory Constraints
Led by NYU Langone Health · Updated on 2025-12-12
460
Participants Needed
2
Research Sites
260 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
N
NYU Langone Health
Lead Sponsor
N
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
This study examines how cochlear implant users understand and comprehend speech in realistic communication situations. Through six experiments measuring listening effort via pupillometry and discourse comprehension, we will investigate how linguistic context, cognitive demands, and processing time affect speech understanding in CI users, and in normal-hearing controls) to identify factors underlying communication resilience versus vulnerability and develop improved, ecologically valid assessment and rehabilitation strategies.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Cochlear Implants and Listening Effort: the Interaction of Cognitive and Sensory Constraints
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Adults aged 18 to 80 years
- Healthy normal-hearing or cochlear implant users
You will not qualify if you...
- Individuals under 18 years of age
- Those with neurologic, vascular, psychiatric disease, dementia, or taking interfering medications
- History of language disorders not related to hearing loss
- Non-native speakers of American English
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 2 locations
1
Brandeis University
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States, 02453
Actively Recruiting
2
NYU Langone Health
New York, New York, United States, 10016
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Research Team
M
Mario A. Svirsky, PhD
CONTACT
N
Nicole Capach
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
OTHER
Number of Arms
2
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