Evaluation of a Test Battery to Assess Perception of Music in Children With Cochlear Implants

Roy, Alexis T.; Scattergood-Keepper, Lindsay; Carver, Courtney; Jiradejvong, Patpong; Butler, Caty; Limb, Charles J.

doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2014.341

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“…CI listeners perceive pitch less accurately than normal-hearing (NH) listeners (Pretorius and Hanekom, 2008; Kang et al, 2009), as well as other spectral parameters in music, such as melody contour (Galvin et al, 2009) and instrument timbre (Kang et al, 2009; Brockmeier et al, 2011). Roy et al (2014) found similar results in CI children, who exhibited difficulty in discriminating pitch and timbre, but less so for discriminating chord sequences.…”

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“…Taken this small difference into account, an even larger discrepancy between the two groups might therefore have been expected. In some cases, children listening through a CI have been reported to discriminate chords on the same level as their NH peers (Roy et al, 2014). In their experiment, the target chords were framed by harmonically related major chords.…”

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“…The inability of the CI listeners to detect a correct ending in experiment 3, however, suggests that in chord sequences they fail to register the syntactical role of the cadences. Roy et al (2014) asked children listening through a CI to discriminate chord triplets constructed from a chord x framed by two major chords I (I-x-I). These triplets might be regarded as a minimal cadence, although they were not controlled for harmonic syntax as are the present data.…”

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“…Perception test used in Brockmeier et al (2011) was replicated in children with comparable results (Stabej et al, 2012), although the authors reported only the average valence of all chords. Roy et al (2014) investigated five musical discrimination tasks in young CI listeners at an age of about seven and NH peers. Whereas on average CI listeners were outperformed by the NH peers, both groups were on a level in distinguishing three-chord sequences that differed only in the central chord.…”

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Harmony Perception in Prelingually Deaf, Juvenile Cochlear Implant Users

et al. 2019

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Prelingually deaf children listening through cochlear implants (CIs) face severe limitations on their experience of music, since the hearing device degrades relevant details of the acoustic input. An important parameter of music is harmony, which conveys emotional as well as syntactic information. The present study addresses musical harmony in three psychoacoustic experiments in young, prelingually deaf CI listeners and normal-hearing (NH) peers. The discrimination and preference of typical musical chords were studied, as well as cadence sequences conveying musical syntax. The ability to discriminate chords depended on the hearing age of the CI listeners, and was less accurate than for the NH peers. The groups did not differ with respect to the preference of certain chord types. NH listeners were able to categorize cadences, and performance improved with age at testing. In contrast, CI listeners were largely unable to categorize cadences. This dissociation is in accordance with data found in postlingually deafened adults. Consequently, while musical harmony is available to a limited degree to CI listeners, they are unable to use harmony to interpret musical syntax.

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“…In the adult version of the test, all music was played by piano whereas the child version contains 10 instruments (including piano) to help maintain test engagement (Peretz et al, 2013). It is clear that children using CIs have more difficulties than their normal hearing peers distinguishing between different instruments (Roy et al, 2014) but potential effects of different instruments on cMBEA performance in either group of children has not been studied to our knowledge.…”

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Music Perception Testing Reveals Advantages and Continued Challenges for Children Using Bilateral Cochlear Implants

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Meludia platform as a tool to evaluate music perception in pediatric and adult cochlear implant users

Calvino,

Zuazua,

Sanchez-Cuadrado

et al. 2023

Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol

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Purpose Music perception is one of the greatest challenges for cochlear implant (CI) users. The aims of this study were: (i) to evaluate the music perception of CI users using the online Meludia music training program as music testing platform, (ii) to compare performance among three age groups, and (iii) to compare CI users with their normal hearing (NH) peers. Methods 138 individuals participated, divided between children (6–10 y), adolescents (11–16 y), and adults (≥ 17 y). Five music perception tasks were evaluated: Rhythm, Spatialization, Stable/unstable, Melody, and Density. We also administered the music related quality of life (MuRQoL) questionnaire for adults, and a music questionnaire for pediatric population (6–16 y) (MuQPP). Results A significantly higher percentage of the adolescent CI users completed the five tasks compared to the other age groups. Both pediatric and adolescent CI users had similar performance to their NH peers in most categories. On the MuRQoL, adult NH listeners reported more music exposure than CI users (3.8 ± 0.6 vs 3.0 ± 0.6, p < 0.01), but both groups reported similar levels of perceived music importance (3.4 ± 0.7 vs 3.2 ± 1.1, p = 0.340). On the MuQPP, pediatric CI users who scored highly on music perception also had higher reported questionnaire scores (54.2 ± 12.9 vs 40.9 ± 12.1, p = 0.009). Conclusions Meludia can be used to evaluate music perception and to use for music training in CI users of all ages. Adolescents had the highest performance in most musical tasks. Pediatric CI users were more similar to their NH peers. The importance of music in adult CI users was comparable to their NH peers.

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Evaluation of a Test Battery to Assess Perception of Music in Children With Cochlear Implants

Abstract: The MCCI provided an efficient and user-friendly assessment of music perception in pediatric CI users. This test battery may serve as a valuable tool to evaluate music perceptual abilities of pediatric CI users and measure the effects of interventions.

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Harmony Perception in Prelingually Deaf, Juvenile Cochlear Implant Users

Harmony Perception in Prelingually Deaf, Juvenile Cochlear Implant Users

Music Perception Testing Reveals Advantages and Continued Challenges for Children Using Bilateral Cochlear Implants

Meludia platform as a tool to evaluate music perception in pediatric and adult cochlear implant users

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