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Listening Effort in Cochlear Implant Users

NCT06516575 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 450

Last updated 2025-08-12

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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 strain, burnout, medical sick leave, and the need for increased time to recover from regular daily activities. This proposal aims to understand effort changes on a moment-to-moment basis during listening, how long the effort lasts, and how the planning and execution of effort is impacted by the experience of using a cochlear implant.

Conditions

  • Auditory Perception; Abnormal
  • Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
  • Hearing Loss

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

sentence manipulations

Auditory stimuli (sentences) are manipulated to have key words masked by noise, or to have prosody (pitch contour) manipulated to be consistent or inconsistent with a specific inferred meaning. Participants repeat the sentences while a camera tracks changes in their eye movements and changes in pupil dilation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-09-01
Primary Completion
2028-04-28
Completion
2028-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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