Children with bilateral cochlear implants identify emotion in speech and music

Волкова, А. В.; Trehub, Sandra E.; Schellenberg, E. Glenn; Papsin, Blake C.; Gordon, Karen A.

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“…This suggests that children listening through CIs are able to establish firm concepts of emotion fairly early. However, studies to date indicate that voice emotion recognition by cCI remains significantly poorer than their normally hearing peers (Most & Aviner, 2009; Wang et al, 2013; Ketelaar et al, 2012; Volkova et al, 2013). Nakata et al (2012) found that imitative voice emotion production scores of Japanese cCI aged 5–13 years were significantly poorer than cNHs’ and correlated with their voice emotion perception scores.…”

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Voice emotion recognition by cochlear-implanted children and their normally-hearing peers

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Despite their remarkable success in bringing spoken language to hearing impaired listeners, the signal transmitted through cochlear implants (CIs) remains impoverished in spectro-temporal fine structure. As a consequence, pitch-dominant information such as voice emotion, is diminished. For young children, the ability to correctly identify the mood/intent of the speaker (which may not always be visible in their facial expression) is an important aspect of social and linguistic development. Previous work in the field has shown that children with cochlear implants (cCI) have significant deficits in voice emotion recognition relative to their normally hearing peers (cNH). Here, we report on voice emotion recognition by a cohort of 36 school-aged cCI. Additionally, we provide for the first time, a comparison of their performance to that of cNH and NH adults (aNH) listening to CI simulations of the same stimuli. We also provide comparisons to the performance of adult listeners with CIs (aCI), most of whom learned language primarily through normal acoustic hearing. Results indicate that, despite strong variability, on average, cCI perform similarly to their adult counterparts; that both groups’ mean performance is similar to aNHs’ performance with 8-channel noise-vocoded speech; that cNH achieve excellent scores in voice emotion recognition with full-spectrum speech, but on average, show significantly poorer scores than aNH with 8-channel noise-vocoded speech. A strong developmental effect was observed in the cNH with noise-vocoded speech in this task. These results point to the considerable benefit obtained by cochlear-implanted children from their devices, but also underscore the need for further research and development in this important and neglected area.

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“…The behavior of younger children in this study, albeit more anecdotal than conclusive, speaks in favor of those who believe that both the chronological and the hearing age should be taken into consideration (e.g. Snow & Ertmer, 2009;Volkova et al, 2012). On one hand, hearing experience is crucial in developing good speech perception and production skills but, clearly, general cognitive development is an important factor as well.…”

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“…Most and Aviner (2009) also found age to be an important factor in perception of emotion, as did a number of other authors (e.g. Snow & Ertmer, 2009;Volkova et al, 2012).…”

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“…Hopyan-Misakyan, Gordon, Dennis, and Papsin (2009) reported poorer recognition of emotions presented auditorily but not visually by their implanted participants. Good effects of cochlear implants were found in the studies of Bat-Chava, Martin, and Kosciw (2005) and Volkova, Trehub, Schellenberg, Papsin, and Gordon (2012). Sanders (1985) reports conflicting evidence.…”

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Recognition and production of emotions in children with cochlear implants

Mildner

Koska

2014

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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The aim of this study was to examine auditory recognition and vocal production of emotions in three prelingually bilaterally profoundly deaf children aged 6-7 who received cochlear implants before age 2, and compare them with age-matched normally hearing children. No consistent advantage was found for the normally hearing participants. In both groups, sadness was recognized best and disgust was the most difficult. Confusion matrices among other emotions (anger, happiness, and fear) showed that children with and without hearing impairment may rely on different cues. Both groups of children showed that perception is superior to production. Normally hearing children were more successful in the production of sadness, happiness, and fear, but not anger or disgust. The data set is too small to draw any definite conclusions, but it seems that a combination of early implantation and regular auditory-oral-based therapy enables children with cochlear implants to process and produce emotional content comparable with children with normal hearing.

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“…English-speaking CI children had difficulties differentiating between a question and a statement, both in terms of perception and in terms of production (Peng et al, 2008). CI children also display considerable deficits in recognizing emotion in voice (Most and Aviner, 2009;Ketelaar et al, 2012;Nakata et al, 2012;Volkova et al, 2013;Wang et al, 2013;Chatterjee et al, 2015). To summarize, it is clear that CI children suffer both from poor pitch sensitivity and difficulties with pitch-dominant cues in speech perception tasks, but the causality between the two remains to be substantiated, which was the goal of the subsequent section.…”

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Deficits in the sensitivity to pitch sweeps by school-aged children wearing cochlear implants

Deroche

Kulkarni

Christensen

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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Sensitivity to static changes in pitch has been shown to be poorer in school-aged children wearing cochlear implants (CIs) than children with normal hearing (NH), but it is unclear whether this is also the case for dynamic changes in pitch. Yet, dynamically changing pitch has considerable ecological relevance in terms of natural speech, particularly aspects such as intonation, emotion, or lexical tone information. Twenty one children with NH and 23 children wearing a CI participated in this study, along with 18 NH adults and 6 CI adults for comparison. Listeners with CIs used their clinically assigned settings with envelope-based coding strategies. Percent correct was measured in one-or three-interval two-alternative forced choice tasks, for the direction or discrimination of harmonic complexes based on a linearly rising or falling fundamental frequency. Sweep rates were adjusted per subject, in a logarithmic scale, so as to cover the full extent of the psychometric function. Data for up-and down-sweeps were fitted separately, using a maximum-likelihood technique. Fits were similar for up-and down-sweeps in the discrimination task, but diverged in the direction task because psychometric functions for down-sweeps were very shallow. Hits and false alarms were then converted into d ′ and beta values, from which a threshold was extracted at a d ′ of 0.77. Thresholds were very consistent between the two tasks and considerably higher (worse) for CI listeners than for their NH peers. Thresholds were also higher for children than adults. Factors such as age at implantation, age at profound hearing loss, and duration of CI experience did not play any major role in this sensitivity. Thresholds of dynamic pitch sensitivity (in either task) also correlated with thresholds for static pitch sensitivity and with performance in tasks related to speech prosody.

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Children with bilateral cochlear implants identify emotion in speech and music

Cited by 43 publications

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Voice emotion recognition by cochlear-implanted children and their normally-hearing peers

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Deficits in the sensitivity to pitch sweeps by school-aged children wearing cochlear implants

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