Status:
RECRUITING
Listening Effort in Cochlear Implant Users
Lead Sponsor:
University of Minnesota
Conditions:
Auditory Perception; Abnormal
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-75 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
People with hearing loss experience extra effort when listening, which can lead to severe psychological barriers to communication and social participation. Listening effort can lead to fatigue, mental...
Detailed Description
General methods: Speech recognition testing: The main experimental task is listening to speech in the free field in a sound-attenuated booth. Traditional speech recognition consists of hearing and re...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- To be eligible for this study, a participant must:
- Be an adult between the age of 18 to 75 years
- Have had normal hearing and speech/language development as a young child
- For younger NH listeners: have normal audiometric thresholds below 25 dB HL at frequencies between 250 and 8000 Hz
- for cochlear implant listeners: at least 6 months experience with a cochlear implant
- For older (55+ years) age-matched listeners with no cochlear implant: normal audiometric thresholds below 25 dB HL at frequencies between 250 and 2000 Hz and thresholds below 35 dB HL (hearing level) between 4000 and 8000 Hz
- For cochlear implant listeners: be able to recognize spoken words in English at a rate of at least 50%
- Be a competent speaker of north American English
- Lack language-learning or other cognitive disabilities
- Lack of auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder
Exclusion
- unable to fix gaze position
- eye disease preventing typical changes in pupil dilation
- lack of perceptual and productive fluency in English
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 1 2023
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
August 31 2028
Estimated Enrollment :
450 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT06516575
Start Date
September 1 2023
End Date
August 31 2028
Last Update
August 12 2025
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University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55455