Electrophysiological responses to emotional prosody perception in cochlear implant users

Electrophysiological responses to emotional prosody perception in cochlear implant users☆

The present electroencephalographic (EEG) study investigated the ability of cochlear implant (CI) users to recognize emotional prosody. Two CI speech-processing strategies were compared: the ACE (Advance Combination Encoder) and the newly developed MP3000. Semantically neutral sentences spoken in three different emotional prosodies (neutral, angry, happy) were presented to 20 post-lingually dea...

Music Perception in Cochlear Implant Users

Temporal Feature Perception in Cochlear Implant Users

For the perception of timbre of a musical instrument, the attack time is known to hold crucial information. The first 50 to 150 ms of sound onset reflect the excitation mechanism, which generates the sound. Since auditory processing and music perception in particular are known to be hampered in cochlear implant (CI) users, we conducted an electroencephalography (EEG) study with an oddball parad...

Environmental sound perception of cochlear implant users.

The purposes of this study were (1) to develop a new test of environmental sound perception, the Environmental Sounds Perception Test (EST), (2) to compare the performance of experienced cochlear implant (CI) recipients with that of age-equivalent normally hearing (NH) listeners using this new test, and (3) to pilot test its clinical use as a pre-to-post assessment tool. The closed-set EST cons...

Discrimination of emotional and linguistic prosody with cochlear implant simulations

In cochlear implants (CI), temporal sound features are more successfully transmitted than spectral sound features. This could have consequences for the perception of prosody. This was tested for emotion vs. focus perception in simulated CI hearing, starting from the assumption that for emotional prosody spectral (F0) features are more important than for focus prosody. Sets of short Dutch phrase...