Music Processing in Deaf Adults with Cochlear Implants

Cochlear implants (CIs) provide coarse representations of pitch, which are adequate for speech but not for music. Despite increasing interest in music processing by CI users, the available information is fragmentary. The present experiment attempted to fill this void by conducting a comprehensive as...

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Main Author: Saindon, Mathieu R.
Other Authors: Trehub, Sandra E.
Language:en_ca
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/25790
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spelling ndltd-LACETR-oai-collectionscanada.gc.ca-OTU.1807-257902013-04-20T05:21:42ZMusic Processing in Deaf Adults with Cochlear ImplantsSaindon, Mathieu R.cochlear implantsmusichearingpitchrhythmtimbre06210300Cochlear implants (CIs) provide coarse representations of pitch, which are adequate for speech but not for music. Despite increasing interest in music processing by CI users, the available information is fragmentary. The present experiment attempted to fill this void by conducting a comprehensive assessment of music processing in adult CI users. CI users (n =6) and normally hearing (NH) controls (n = 12) were tested on several tasks involving melody and rhythm perception, recognition of familiar music, and emotion of recognition in speech and music. CI performance was substantially poorer than NH performance and at chance levels on pitch processing tasks. Performance was highly variable, however, with one individual achieving NH performance levels on some tasks, probably because of low-frequency residual hearing in his unimplanted ear. Future research with a larger sample of CI users can shed light on factors associated with good and poor music processing in this population.Trehub, Sandra E.Schellenberg, E. Glenn2010-112011-01-11T15:48:47ZNO_RESTRICTION2011-01-11T15:48:47Z2011-01-11T15:48:47ZThesishttp://hdl.handle.net/1807/25790en_ca
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Saindon, Mathieu R.
Music Processing in Deaf Adults with Cochlear Implants
description Cochlear implants (CIs) provide coarse representations of pitch, which are adequate for speech but not for music. Despite increasing interest in music processing by CI users, the available information is fragmentary. The present experiment attempted to fill this void by conducting a comprehensive assessment of music processing in adult CI users. CI users (n =6) and normally hearing (NH) controls (n = 12) were tested on several tasks involving melody and rhythm perception, recognition of familiar music, and emotion of recognition in speech and music. CI performance was substantially poorer than NH performance and at chance levels on pitch processing tasks. Performance was highly variable, however, with one individual achieving NH performance levels on some tasks, probably because of low-frequency residual hearing in his unimplanted ear. Future research with a larger sample of CI users can shed light on factors associated with good and poor music processing in this population.
author2 Trehub, Sandra E.
author_facet Trehub, Sandra E.
Saindon, Mathieu R.
author Saindon, Mathieu R.
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title Music Processing in Deaf Adults with Cochlear Implants
title_short Music Processing in Deaf Adults with Cochlear Implants
title_full Music Processing in Deaf Adults with Cochlear Implants
title_fullStr Music Processing in Deaf Adults with Cochlear Implants
title_full_unstemmed Music Processing in Deaf Adults with Cochlear Implants
title_sort music processing in deaf adults with cochlear implants
publishDate 2010
url http://hdl.handle.net/1807/25790
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