Investigating Vocal Emotion Perception Using Auditory Emotion Recognition Task in Hindi-Speaking Children With Cochlear Implants: A Pilot Study.
Purpose: This study investigates vocal emotion perception in Hindi-speaking children with cochlear implants (CIs) and children with normal hearing (NH) using auditory emotion recognition tasks. Whereas previous research has largely focused on accuracy, this study evaluates both accuracy and reaction...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 69; no. 4; pp. 1866 - 1880 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=192982197&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 192982197 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2026 vid: 69 iid: 4 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 192982197 10.1044/2026_JSLHR-24-00652 ppf: 1866 ppct: 14 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 982KB tig: atl: Investigating Vocal Emotion Perception Using Auditory Emotion Recognition Task in Hindi-Speaking Children With Cochlear Implants: A Pilot Study. aug: au: Saluja, Nityansh Chaudhary, Anchal Verma, Himanshu Mishra, Roshani Nagamani, Banumathy Pandad, Naresh K. affil: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences, Jammu, India Department of Otorhinolaryngology, All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences, Bathinda, India Department of Therapeutics, National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities, Secunderabad, India Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India su: India Language & languages Fear Task performance Sadness Anger Emotions Happiness Case-control method Cochlear implants Data analysis Pilot projects Two-way analysis of variance Kruskal-Wallis Test Descriptive statistics Judgment sampling Physiological aspects of speech Statistics Medical rehabilitation Reaction time Speech perception Auditory perception Acoustic stimulation Indians (Asians) Data analysis software sug: subj: Language & languages Fear Task performance Sadness Anger Emotions Happiness Case-control method India Cochlear implants Data analysis Pilot projects Two-way analysis of variance Kruskal-Wallis Test Descriptive statistics Judgment sampling Physiological aspects of speech Statistics Medical rehabilitation Reaction time Speech perception Auditory perception Acoustic stimulation Indians (Asians) Data analysis software ab: Purpose: This study investigates vocal emotion perception in Hindi-speaking children with cochlear implants (CIs) and children with normal hearing (NH) using auditory emotion recognition tasks. Whereas previous research has largely focused on accuracy, this study evaluates both accuracy and reaction time (RT), offering a behavioral measure of processing efficiency in recognizing five vocal emotions: happy, sad, angry, fear, and surprise. Method: Twenty children aged 4-12 years participated in the study: 10 with CIs and 10 with NH, matched for hearing age and gender. Fifty emotionally intoned Hindi sentences were validated and presented auditorily, followed by two emotion-specific animated images. Participants selected the image matching the heard emotion, and their accuracy and RTs were recorded using DMDX software. Statistical analyses included two-way analyses of variance (ANOVAs) for normally distributed emotions (sad, angry, and surprise) and Kruskal--Wallis tests for nonnormally distributed emotions (happy, fear), with Bonferroni-corrected post hoc comparisons. Results: Children with CIs showed significantly lower accuracy and longer RTs compared to children with NH. A two-way ANOVA revealed a significant main effect of group on accuracy, F(1, 54) = 6.20, p = .013, η² = .06; post hoc analysis indicated significantly lower accuracy for the angry emotion in CI users (p = .006). RT analysis also revealed a robust main effect of group, F(1, 54) = 22.71, p < .001, η² = .30, indicating slower responses in the CI group (mean RT = 5.57 s ± 0.18) than in the NH group (mean RT = 3.62 s ± 0.18). For normally distributed emotions, between-group differences were significant for sad, angry, and surprise (p < .001). For nonnormally distributed emotions, between-group differences were also significant for happy (p = .006) and fear (p < .001). Thus, all five emotions showed significantly longer RTs in the CI group. Conclusions: Hindi-speaking children with CIs demonstrated reduced speed and accuracy in identifying vocal emotions, indicating challenges in processing emotional prosody. These findings highlight the need for integrating explicit training in emotional prosody within auditory rehabilitation programs for pediatric CI users to improve social communication outcomes. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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