inner ear hearing loss sensorineuronal hearing loss
Conditions
Interventions
Participants are asked one hour and a half of their time (excluding time for
traveling) to take part in 9 tests assessing accuracy and latencies of
responses and including time for explanation and p
Sponsors
Universiteit Leiden
Eligibility
Age
2 Years to 99 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients: Having undergone cochlear implantation before the age of 1;6 (early implanted group) or 3;6 (late implanted group); having used the implant for a gross duration of between 3;0 and 3;6 years.;Controls: Aged between 3;0 and 3;6 (hearing-age matched); 4;0 and 4;6 (Younger Chronological-Age Matched Group); or 7;0 and 7;6 (older Chronological-Age Matched Group) Dutch nationality (all groups).
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients. Reported medical problems related to the CI; multilingual development; bilateral implantation.;Control groups. Reported audiological or psychosocial problems; multilingual development
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Pretest 1 - Colour and object identification and naming using a picture naming paradigm. Percentage correct. Pretest 2 - Visual emotion recognition using emotional faces. Percentage correct. Pretest 3 - Discrimination or intonational differences using a reconstruction of the ASSE test for prosody (Auditory Speech Sound Evaluation). Percentage correct. Pretest 4 - Nonword repetition. Percentage correct. Test 1 - Recognition of emotional prosody by identification of the emotion from spoken sentences. Percentage correct. Test 2 - Recognition of linguistic prosody by identification of the sentence accent in spoken sentences. Percentage correct. Test 3 - Emotional prosody production. Percentage correct. Of each trial, the verbal response is digitally recorded. This percentage is determined on the basis of judgments by an independent, to be recruited, panel of healthy adult speakers of Dutch as a mother tongue. They will judge which of the 4 emotions was conveyed plus how certain of their judgment they are for each judgment. Test 4 - Linguistic prosody production. Percentage correct. Of each trial, the verbal response is digitally recorded. This percentage is determined on the basis of judgments by an independent, to be recruited, panel of healthy adult speakers of Dutch as a mother tongue. They will judge which of the 2 possible focus positions was expressed plus how certain of their judgment they are for each judgment. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Pretest 1 - Colour and object identification and naming. Mean response time. Test 1 - Emotional prosody perception. Mean response time. Test 2 - Linguistic prosody perception. Mean response time. | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed