Pitch perception in patients with cochlear implant.

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...

Abnormal Pitch Perception Produced by Cochlear Implant Stimulation

Contemporary cochlear implants with multiple electrode stimulation can produce good speech perception but poor music perception. Hindered by the lack of a gold standard to quantify electric pitch, relatively little is known about the nature and extent of the electric pitch abnormalities and their impact on cochlear implant performance. Here we overcame this obstacle by comparing acoustic and el...

Facial Nerve Stimulation in Cochlear Implant Patients

Music to electric ears: pitch and timbre perception by cochlear implant patients.

The sounds of music play with many perceptual dimensions. We devised a set of psychophysical procedures to better understand how recipients of cochlear implants perceive basic sound attributes involved in music listening.

Auditory Perception and Verbal Intelligibility in Children with Cochlear Implant, Hearing Aids and Normal Hearing

Objective: The aim of the present research was to compare the auditory perception and verbal intelligibility in children with cochlear implant, hearing aids and normal hearing. Methods: 60 children aged 5-7 years were divided to three groups and each group contained 20 children. The first and second groups were selected ordinarily from children with cochlear implant and hearing aids by conve...