Enhancement of Speech Emotion Recogntio

Completed

Conditions: hearing impairment
hearing disorder

Registration Number: NL-OMON46825

Lead Sponsor: niversitair Medisch Centrum Groningen

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 195

Inclusion Criteria

Normal Hearing controls:
In order to be eligible to participate in this study, a subject must meet all of the following criteria:
- Age > 18 years, but younger than 75 years
- Healthy subjects
- Audiometry with hearing level * 20 db HL puretone thresholds from 250 to 8000 Hz bilaterally (in both ears)
- Native Dutch speaker (Dutch was the only language acquired within the first three years of their life);Hearing Impaired subjects:
In order to be eligible to participate in this study, a subject must meet all of the following criteria:
- Age > 18 years, but younger than 75 years
- Healthy subjects, other than hearing disorders
- Native Dutch speaker (Dutch was the only language acquired within the first three years of their life)

Exclusion Criteria

A potential subject who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in this study:
- Known linguistic or speech disorders (such as dyslexia)
- Non-native dutch speaker
- All subjects who appear not in good health

Study & Design

Study Type: Observational non invasive

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>The study parameters will be profiles that specify emotion perception<br /><br>parameters for the groups NH and HI, and profiles of individual HI listeners.<br /><br>These profiles will be based on a combination of behavioural measures (reaction<br /><br>times, accuracy, and psychoacoustic sensitivities) and objective measures<br /><br>(pupillometry, EEG and eye-tracking) to assess listening effort and cognitive<br /><br>processing. </p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures