Improving melody recognition in cochlear implant recipients through individualized frequency map Wtting
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Walter Di Nardo · Alessandro Scorpecci · Sara Giannantonio · Francesca Cianfrone · Gaetano Paludetti
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
Recent research has shown that music perception remains very diYcult for most cochlear implant (CI) users, who generally report being unsatisWed with the quality of music listening through the CI. In particular, the appreciation of the spectral features of music, which include pitch, melody and timbre, is widely known to be poorer than its rhythmic patterns. One of the possible causes for this may be the misalignment between the conventional frequency band allocation to the electrodes of the array (frequency-place function) and the distribution of pitch percepts generated by electrode stimulation along the array (electrode-pitch function). In this paper the authors investigate whether mismatch correction through individualized Wtting of the processor’s frequency maps can improve music understanding in ten Nucleus™ cochlear implant users, by comparing scores obtained with experimental and old map; both maps were tested before, immediately after and 1 month after the Wtting through a music test battery designed for the purpose of the study
Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol (2011) 268:27–39, Received: 23 April 2010 / Accepted: 2 July 2010 / Published online: 16 July 2010 © Springer-Verlag 2010
