Tone perception and production in pediatric cochlear implants users

Tone perception and production in pediatric cochlear implants users.

CONCLUSIONS In prelingually deaf children with cochlear implants, tone perception and production performance are highly correlated. This result is consistent with the hypothesis that tone perception is the prerequisite for good tone production. OBJECTIVES Previous research has shown remarkable deficits in tone perception and production in native tone language-speaking, prelingually deafened c...

Speech Perception in Children with Cochlear Implants

Cochlear implants provide access to the speech signal in children with hearing loss that often cannot benefit from acoustic hearing aids. However, despite the numerous positive results in pediatric cochlear implantation, published data still indicated a wide range of performance among implant recipients. Hence, a need to study the possible variables that can affect performance, could account fo...

Speech Production by Users of Cochlear Implants

Musical pitch and lexical tone perception with cochlear implants.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present study was to test the hypothesis that cochlear implant (CI) users' music perception is correlated with their lexical tone perception, and the two types of perception share similar mechanisms in electric hearing. DESIGN A lexical tone perception test and a pitch interval discrimination test were administered to a group of CI users and a group of normal-hear...

Relationship between tone perception and production in prelingually deafened children with cochlear implants.

HYPOTHESIS Performance in tone perception and production are correlated in prelingually deafened pediatric cochlear implant (CI) users across individuals. Demographic variables, such as age at implantation, contribute to the performance variability. BACKGROUND Poor representation of pitch information in CI devices hinders pitch perception and affects perception of lexical tones in cochlear im...