Objective To investigate the voice emotion perception of bimodal listeners,and to provide refer-ence and suggestions for hearing rehabilitation of cochlear implant(CI)users.Methods A total of 17 Mandarin-speaking postingual deafness bimodal adults as well as 20 normal hearing(NH)adults and 18 adults with unilateral CI participated in the study.All participants received voice emotion recognition test.Results The NH group had significantly higher accuracy scores and shorter reaction times than the bimodal group and the unilateral CI group(P＜0.05).There were no significant differences in accuracy between the bimodal group and the unilateral CI group(P＞0.05).The reaction time was significantly shorter in the bimodal users than in the unilateral CI users(P＜0.05).The bimodal listeners spent less time in female-speaker material than that in male-speaker material(P＜0.05).Neutral emotion had the highest accuracy(96.67％)and scared emotion had the lowest accuracy(41.82％).Conclusion A contralateral hearing aid(HA)improves the ability of voice emotion perception for Mandarin-speak-ing bimodal listeners,even though they continue to experience more challenges than NH peers.HA in the nonim-planted ear plays an important role in Mandarin-speaking bimodal listeners'voice emotion perception.
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