Harmony Perception in Prelingually Deaf, Juvenile Cochlear Implant Users

Perception and interpretation of low-onset rising tunesby prelingually deaf cochlear implant users

Production studies have shown that the intonational tunes L*H-H% and L*L-H% may be used for different discourse functions in Australian English [1,2,3,4]. This study investigates whether prelingually deaf cochlear implant (CI) users can discriminate between changes in the starting point of a rise, as distinguishes these tunes phonetically. We also assessed their interpretation of these tunes. 1...

Speech perception in pre-lingual deaf users of cochlear implant.

BACKGROUND cochlear implant is a rather processing electronic device in terms of its benefits, as it provides the deaf child with the appropriation of incidental oral language. AIM to evaluate the hearing performance of the first 60 children with pre-lingual sensorineural hearing loss who were implanted at the Audiologic Research Centre of the Hospital de Reabilitação de Anomalias Craniofacia...

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...