Vocal Emotion Recognition in School-Age Children With Hearing Aids
In line with previous literature, even in normal hearing, vocal emotion recognition develops over many years toward adulthood, likely due to interactions with linguistic and cognitive development. Given the long development period, any potential difficulties for vocal emotion recognition in children with hearing loss can only be identified with respect to what would be realistic based on their age. With such a comparison, we were able to show that, as a group, children with hearing aids also develop in vocal emotion recognition, however, seemingly at a slower pace. Individual data indicated a number of the hearing-aided children showed age-expected vocal emotion recognition. Hence, even though hearing aids have been developed and optimized for speech perception, these data indicate that hearing aids can also support age-typical development of vocal emotion recognition. For the children whose recognition scores were lower than age-expected levels, there were no predictive hearing-related factors. This could be potentially reflecting inherent variations related to development of relevant cognitive mechanisms, but a role from cumulative effects from hearing loss is also a possibility. As follow-up research, we plan to investigate if vocal emotion recognition will improve over time for these children.
Authors
- Deniz Başkent (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6560-1451)
- Laura Rachman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4744-1308)
- Gonca Sennaroğlu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3337-2391)
- Étienne Gaudrain (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0490-0295)
- Peter Derleth
- Gurjit Singh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3744-1806)
- Gizem Babaoğlu
- Leanne Nagels (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4853-969X)
- Başak Özkişi Yazgan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2289-0094)
- Monita Chatterjee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8286-2557)
- Pınar Ertürk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1204-0600)
- Stefan Launer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2030-6854)
- Esra Yücel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2885-8159)
- Frédérick Uhlemayr
Institutions
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (FR)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- University Medical Center Groningen (NL)
- Inserm (FR)
- University of Groningen (NL)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (FR)
- Santhera Pharmaceuticals (Switzerland) (CH)
- Boys Town National Research Hospital (US)
- Emotional Brain (Netherlands) (NL)
- Toronto Metropolitan University (CA)
- Hacettepe University (TR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Ear and Hearing
- Published
- 2025-03-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/aud.0000000000001645
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.29
Funders
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche
- ZonMw
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
- Hacettepe Üniversitesi
- Université de Lyon
- Centre Lyonnais d'Acoustique, Université de Lyon