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Social Influences on Sensorimotor Integration of Speech Production and Perception During Early Vocal Learning

NCT05634356 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2024-06-18

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Summary

The goal of this study is to investigate the role of social factors on speech learning, including production and perception, in infants ranging in age from \~7-18 months. Infants have either typical hearing or sensorineural hearing loss. The main prediction of the study is that social reinforcement will engender improvements in vocal learning above and beyond gains in hearing in infants with hearing loss. As part of this study:

* The parent and infant engage in a free play session in the playroom while the investigator cues the parent to say simple nonsense words;
* Infants hear playback of the same words during a second phase.

Conditions

  • Sensorineural Hearing Loss
  • Speech

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

vocal-social reinforcement

experimental manipulation of social reinforcement in response to vocalizations

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cornell University

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Southern California

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sarah W Bottjer, Ph.D. · University of Southern California

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
7 Months
Max Age
24 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-10-12
Primary Completion
2024-11-01
Completion
2025-02-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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