Vocal Emotion Communication With Cochlear Implants
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
- Where
- Evanston, Los Angeles, Omaha, and Tempe, United StatesSee the 4 sites
- Trial code
- Status
- Recruiting
- Phase
- Early phase 1
- People taking part
- 255 people, planned
- Started
- 1 Jul 2022
- Expected to end
- 30 Jun 2027
- Type of study
- Interventional
- Treatments tested
- Perception of acoustic cues to emotion
- Production of acoustic cues to emotion
- Record updated
- 19 September 2025
Who can take part
- Age
- 6 years to 80 years
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Can take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Prelingually deaf children with cochlear implants; Postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants; Normally hearing children; Normally hearing adults
Who cannot take part
- Non-native speakers of American English; Prelingually deaf individuals who receive cochlear implants after age 12; Adults unable to pass a basic cognitive screen
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 6 and 80 years old?
Where in United States
- Northwestern UniversityEvanston, United StatesContact: Monita Chatterjee, Ph.D.Not yet recruiting
- House Institute FoundationLos Angeles, United StatesContact: John J Galvin, Ph.D.Taking people
- Boys Town National Research HospitalOmaha, United StatesContact: Monita Chatterjee, Ph.D.Taking people
- Arizona State UniversityTempe, United StatesContact: Xin Luo, Ph.D.Taking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
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.
The group in the trial
- Vocal emotion communication by children and adults with cochlear implants or normal hearingTreatment being tested
Participants will be native speakers of American English and include pediatric cochlear implant recipients with unilateral or bilateral devices aged 6-19 years, children with normal hearing aged 6-19 years, postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants, and adults with normal hearing. In Aim 1 participants will listen to emotional speech sounds and identify the talker's intended emotion. In Aim 2 participants will be invited to produce emotional speech by reading out scripted materials or in a more naturalistic conversational setting.
Treatment: Perception of acoustic cues to emotion and Production of acoustic cues to emotion
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Perception and Production of Emotional Prosody With Cochlear Implants
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT05486637, who can take part
- Record updated
- 19 September 2025