Music Perception of Cochlear Implant Recipients With Implications for Music Instruction

Music and Pitch Perception of Cochlear Implant Recipients

Users of cochlear implants (CIs) often achieve good performance in speech recognition, but report that music sounds unnatural and is often unrecognisable. This thesis reports experiments to determine the relationship between the perception by CI users of parameters related to music (and to tonal languages) and the parameters of the signals that give rise to them. For electrical stimulation by p...

Music perception of cochlear implant users: a questionnaire, and its implications for a music training program.

Current research has shown that although adult cochlear implant (CI) users generally find music to be less enjoyable following implantation, training may help some recipients to improve their music perception. This study developed and administered a questionnaire (The University of Canterbury Music Listening Questionnaire: UCMLQ), to collect information which could then be used to develop such ...

Emotional Perception of Music in Children with Unilateral Cochlear Implants

Introduction: Cochlear implantation (CI) improves language skills among children with hearing loss. However, children with CIs still fall short of fulfilling some other needs, including musical perception. This is often attributed to the biological, technological, and acoustic limitations of CIs. Emotions play a key role in the understanding and enjoyment of music. The present study aimed to in...

Music Perception in Cochlear Implant Users

Temporal stability of music perception and appraisal scores of adult cochlear implant recipients.

BACKGROUND An extensive body of literature indicates that cochlear implants (CIs) are effective in supporting speech perception of persons with severe to profound hearing losses who do not benefit to any great extent from conventional hearing aids. Adult CI recipients tend to show significant improvement in speech perception within 3 mo following implantation as a result of mere experience. Fur...