When the deaf listen to music. Pitch perception with cochlear implants (2005)
Abstract / truncated to 115 words
Cochlear implants (CI) are surgically implanted hearing aids that provide auditory sensations to deaf people through direct electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve. Although relatively good speech understanding can be achieved by implanted subjects, pitch perception by CI subjects is about 50 times worse than observed for normal-hearing (NH) persons. Pitch is, however, important for intonation, music, speech understanding in tonal languages, and for separating multiple simultaneous sound sources. The major goal of this work is to improve pitch perception by CI subjects. In CI subjects two fundamental mechanisms are used for pitch perception: place pitch and temporal pitch. Our results show that place pitch is correlated to the sound¢s brightness because place pitch sensation ...
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- Author
- Laneau, Johan
- Institution
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Supervisors
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Upload Date
- Oct. 3, 2008
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