Music activities and responses of young cochlear implant recipients

Abstract

Young cochlear implant recipients receive similar exposure to audiovisual music media, parental singing and musical instruments at home. However, the data suggest that they receive less exposure to children's music presented without visual stimuli. Parents also reported less sophisticated responses to music for this group. The findings of this study have important implications concerning the provision of age-appropriate music habilitation materials and activities for young cochlear implant recipients.

Children with bilateral cochlear implants identify emotion in speech and music

“…This research has focused largely on CI users' difficulty differentiating melodies Vongpaisal et al, 2006Vongpaisal et al, , 2009 and identifying familiar music on the basis of pitch cues alone (Cooper et al, 2008;Cullington and Zeng, 2011;Hsiao, 2008;Kong et al, 2004;Nimmons, 2007;Stordahl, 2002). Not surprisingly, this difficulty makes music unpalatable to many postlingually deafened CI users (Gfeller et al, 2000;Lassaletta et al, 2007;Leal et al, 2003), but congenitally or prelingually deaf children with CIs typically enjoy music listening and music making (Gfeller et al, 2000;Nakata et al, 2006;van Besouw et al, 2011;Vongpaisal et al, 2006). To date, however, there is only one published study of emotion identification in music by child CI users (Hopyan et al, 2011).…”

Study on the efficacy of harmonic frequencies applied through music therapy intervention techniques in cochlear implant patients

“…The results of this study show that musical training and stimulation improve both musical perception and auditory discrimination ability in cochlear implant patients, 8,9,11,13,14,21 specifically significantly in the identification and recognition of intervals of fifth and third in major scales (pitch, duration and number of sound strokes), identification and recognition of chord progressions with tonic, subdominant and dominant structures and of the intelligibility factor of the phonological tests performed.…”

“…[5][6][7] Similarly, from a perspective of music as a rehabilitative tool in the development of post-implantation auditory skills numerous researchers have worked in this area. [8][9][10] Thus, van Besouw et al 9 show that from an intervention program implanted children rapidly improved their receptive auditory and vocal skills. However, the results also suggest that preschool CI children receive less exposure to music without visual support than with it.…”

Crucial Music Components Needed for Speech Perception Enhancement of Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

“…The smallest positive effect comes by listening to musical stimuli only. Findings from earlier research by Rocca [2012], Van Besouw et al [2011] and Torppa et al [2014b] suggest that musical experience in general, and singing in particular, support augmented auditory perception and attention in hearing-impaired children, given that production is linked to perception. The result is in line with the study conducted by Torppa et al [2018], which investigated the role of musical activity in the development of language skills.…”

“…Oscillatory activity of the auditory cortex can be locked to both speech and music rhythm, leading to enhance attention at the moment when the children need to sing according to correct beats and speech stress is then expected Tillman, 2015, as cited in Torppa et al, 2020]. Attention given by the children during singing activity and with rhythmic predict-ability of songs can further lead to better perception for children with CI [Van Besouw et al 2011;Bolger et al, 2014;Holt et al, 2016]. Moreover, multisensory context of singing by oneself may further enhance the sensitivity to changes in lyrics at key predictable moments [Torppa et al, 2018, as cited in Torppa et al, 2020.…”