Open AccessPerception of Child-Directed Versus Adult-Directed Emotional Speech in Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users
Author(s) -
Karen C. Barrett,
Monita Chatterjee,
Meredith Caldwell,
Mickael L. D. Deroche,
Patpong Jiradejvong,
Aditya M. Kulkarni,
Charles J. Limb
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
ear and hearing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.577
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1538-4667
pISSN - 0196-0202
DOI - 10.1097/aud.0000000000000862
Subject(s) - prosody , psychology , nonverbal communication , cochlear implant , cognition , emotion perception , speech perception , perception , audiology , population , vocabulary , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , speech recognition , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , environmental health , computer science , neuroscience
Cochlear implants (CIs) are remarkable in allowing individuals with severe to profound hearing loss to perceive speech. Despite these gains in speech understanding, however, CI users often struggle to perceive elements such as vocal emotion and prosody, as CIs are unable to transmit the spectro-temporal detail needed to decode affective cues. This issue becomes particularly important for children with CIs, but little is known about their emotional development. In a previous study, pediatric CI users showed deficits in voice emotion recognition with child-directed stimuli featuring exaggerated prosody. However, the large intersubject variability and differential developmental trajectory known in this population incited us to question the extent to which exaggerated prosody would facilitate performance in this task. Thus, the authors revisited the question with both adult-directed and child-directed stimuli.