Emotions transfered by Cochlear Implants: an ERP study exploring the possibilities

Aims: We are able to express emotions via suprasegmental features (emotional prosody). It is still unclear whether cochlear implant (CI) users can effectively identify emotional prosody. The present EEG-study investigates the ability of CI users to recognize vocally expressed emotions. Two CI speech coding strategies, ACE (Advance Combination Encoder) and the newly developed MP3000, also known as PACE (Psychoacoustic Advanced Combination Encoder) are being compared. Methods: We investigated two groups of participants: 20 unilateral CI users (age range: 25–55 years) and age matched normal-hearing controls. We pre…