Actively Recruiting
Listening Effort in Cochlear Implant Users
Led by University of Minnesota · Updated on 2025-08-12
450
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
260 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
People with hearing loss experience extra effort when listening, which can lead to severe psychological barriers to communication and social participation. Listening effort can lead to fatigue, mental strain, burnout, medical sick leave, and the need for increased time to recover from regular daily activities. This proposal aims to understand effort changes on a moment-to-moment basis during listening, how long the effort lasts, and how the planning and execution of effort is impacted by the experience of using a cochlear implant.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Listening Effort in Cochlear Implant Users
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Be an adult between the age of 18 to 75 years
- Have had normal hearing and speech/language development as a young child
- For younger normal hearing listeners: have normal audiometric thresholds below 25 dB HL at frequencies between 250 and 8000 Hz
- For cochlear implant listeners: at least 6 months experience with a cochlear implant
- For older (55+ years) age-matched listeners with no cochlear implant: normal audiometric thresholds below 25 dB HL at frequencies between 250 and 2000 Hz and thresholds below 35 dB HL between 4000 and 8000 Hz
- For cochlear implant listeners: be able to recognize spoken words in English at a rate of at least 50%
- Be a competent speaker of North American English
- Lack language-learning or other cognitive disabilities
- Lack of auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder
You will not qualify if you...
- Unable to fix gaze position
- Eye disease preventing typical changes in pupil dilation
- Lack of perceptual and productive fluency in English
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55455
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
M
Matthew Winn, PhD, AuD
CONTACT
K
Katherine Teece, AuD
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Model
FACTORIAL
Primary Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Number of Arms
2
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