Development and validation of a procedure to test perception of speech prosody in listeners with cochlear implants.

ABSTRACT: Understanding vocal prosody is essential to successful communication. However, evaluations of speech recognition have relied heavily on word repetition-type tasks where success does not hinge on prosody perception, or where stimuli do not have enough prosodic variation to even test for this ability. Individuals who use cochlear implants (CIs) are at risk for poorer perception of prosody because of their limited access to pitch perception. This study used a multi-slider visual analog interface to measure perception of contrastive focus prosody in sentence-length stimuli by participants with CIs or with typical hearing (TH). Compared to TH listeners, CI users were more likely to misidentify which word had prosodic focus, as well as having weaker perception of prosodic focus, on average. Wher

SUBMITTER: Wheeler HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12571113 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature