Vocal Emotion Communication With Cochlear Implants

Vocal emotion recognition accuracy,Vocal emotion recognition sensitivity,Voice pitch (fundamental frequency) of vocal productions,Intensity of vocal productions,Duration of vocal productions,Identifiability of recorded speech emotions

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.