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 @entity1740 , is diminished. For young @entity1 , 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 @entity1 with cochlear implants (cCI) have significant @entity51 recognition relative to their normally hearing peers (cNH). Here, we report on @entity1740 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 @entity52565 achieve excellent scores in @entity1740 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 @entity1 from their devices, but also underscore the need for further research and development in this important and neglected area. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled <Lasker Award>.

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

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['children'] @entity51 :: ('MESH:D009461', 'Disease') :: ['deficits in voice emotion'] @entity1740 :: ('MESH:D014832', 'Disease') :: ['voice emotion'] @entity52565 :: ('CHEBI:29815', 'Chemical') :: ['cNH']
@entity1 :: (9606,Species) :: ['children']
