Behavioral Perception and Neural Correlates of Categorical Perception in Cochlear Implant Users

Neural Correlates of Boredom in Music Perception

Introduction: Music can elicit powerful emotional responses, the neural correlates of which have not been properly understood. An important aspect about the quality of any musical piece is its ability to elicit a sense of excitement in the listeners. In this study, we investigated the neural correlates of boredom evoked by music in human subjects. Methods: We used EEG recording in nine sub...

Music Perception in Cochlear Implant Users

Temporal Feature Perception in Cochlear Implant Users

For the perception of timbre of a musical instrument, the attack time is known to hold crucial information. The first 50 to 150 ms of sound onset reflect the excitation mechanism, which generates the sound. Since auditory processing and music perception in particular are known to be hampered in cochlear implant (CI) users, we conducted an electroencephalography (EEG) study with an oddball parad...

Environmental sound perception of cochlear implant users.

The purposes of this study were (1) to develop a new test of environmental sound perception, the Environmental Sounds Perception Test (EST), (2) to compare the performance of experienced cochlear implant (CI) recipients with that of age-equivalent normally hearing (NH) listeners using this new test, and (3) to pilot test its clinical use as a pre-to-post assessment tool. The closed-set EST cons...

Neural Correlates of Categorical Perception of Speech

One of the phenomena most closely associated with speech perception is categorical perception. v Categorical perception refers to a poor ability to discriminate between members of the same category and a very good ability to discriminate between members of different categories. As applied to speech, this implies good discrimination between different phonemes and poor discrimination between diff...