Actively Recruiting

Early Phase 1
Age: 6Years - 80Years
All Genders
Healthy Volunteers
NCT05486637

Vocal Emotion Communication With Cochlear Implants

Led by Father Flanagan's Boys' Home · Updated on 2025-09-19

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Participants Needed

4

Research Sites

260 weeks

Total Duration

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Sponsors

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Father Flanagan's Boys' Home

Lead Sponsor

A

Arizona State University

Collaborating Sponsor

AI-Summary

What this Trial 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.

CONDITIONS

Official Title

Vocal Emotion Communication With Cochlear Implants

Who Can Participate

Age: 6Years - 80Years
All Genders
Healthy Volunteers

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible

You may qualify if you...

  • Prelingually deaf children with cochlear implants
  • Postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants
  • Normally hearing children
  • Normally hearing adults
Not Eligible

You will not qualify if you...

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

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Trial Site Locations

Total: 4 locations

1

Arizona State University

Tempe, Arizona, United States, 85287

Actively Recruiting

2

House Institute Foundation

Los Angeles, California, United States, 90017

Actively Recruiting

3

Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois, United States, 60208

Not Yet Recruiting

4

Boys Town National Research Hospital

Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68131

Actively Recruiting

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Research Team

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Monita Chatterjee, Ph.D.

CONTACT

D

Dawna E Lewis, Ph.D.

CONTACT

How is the study designed?

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Masking

NONE

Allocation

NA

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Number of Arms

1

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