Seminars in Hearing Research

Date: Thursday, November 13, 2025

Location: Nelson Hall, Room 1215

Time: 12:00-1:00pm

Speaker: Monita Chatterjee, Ph.D.  Professor, Dept of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

Title: Vocal emotion communication by children and adults with cochlear implants.

Abstract:Cochlear implant technology provides many children and adults with severe/profound hearing loss the ability to hear sounds and communicate orally. However, some aspects of sounds such as the pitch of voices or musical instruments, are not conveyed well through the device. This leads to deficits in the communication of pitch-dominant information in speech, such as question/statement contrasts, speaker identification, lexical tones, and emotional information. In this presentation, I will describe our research team’s work on how school age children with cochlear implants perceive spoken emotions, predictors of individual variability in their outcomes, and links between their perception and production of emotions in speech. In addition, I will present our recent work on age-related changes in emotion perception in adults with good acoustic hearing and their counterparts with cochlear implants.

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