Cortical processing of musical sounds in children with Cochlear Implants

Torppa, Ritva; Salo, Emma; Makkonen, Tommi; Loimo, Hannu; Pykäläinen, Johannes; Lipsanen, Jari; Faulkner, Andrew; Huotilainen, Minna

doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2012.03.008

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“…Further study would also need to investigate effects of training at the neural level. Using a deviant detection task (tone, duration, intensity, and timbre) in pediatric cochlear implant users that were not musically trained, Torppa et al (2012) observed smaller amplitudes for the P1, MMN, and P3a components as well as longer latency of the MMN than in matched normal hearing children. Further studies will investigate if music training could improve these neural indices in deaf children.…”

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Music Lessons Improve Auditory Perceptual and Cognitive Performance in Deaf Children

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Moussard

Bigand

2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Despite advanced technologies in auditory rehabilitation of profound deafness, deaf children often exhibit delayed cognitive and linguistic development and auditory training remains a crucial element of their education. In the present cross-sectional study, we assess whether music would be a relevant tool for deaf children rehabilitation. In normal-hearing children, music lessons have been shown to improve cognitive and linguistic-related abilities, such as phonetic discrimination and reading. We compared auditory perception, auditory cognition, and phonetic discrimination between 14 profoundly deaf children who completed weekly music lessons for a period of 1.5–4 years and 14 deaf children who did not receive musical instruction. Children were assessed on perceptual and cognitive auditory tasks using environmental sounds: discrimination, identification, auditory scene analysis, auditory working memory. Transfer to the linguistic domain was tested with a phonetic discrimination task. Musically trained children showed better performance in auditory scene analysis, auditory working memory and phonetic discrimination tasks, and multiple regressions showed that success on these tasks was at least partly driven by music lessons. We propose that musical education contributes to development of general processes such as auditory attention and perception, which, in turn, facilitate auditory-related cognitive and linguistic processes.

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Music Lessons Improve Auditory Perceptual and Cognitive Performance in Deaf Children

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Moussard

Bigand

2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…Participants were 21 unilaterally implanted and 21 normal-hearing (NH) children, aged 4 -13 years, and native speakers of Finnish (all participated also in the study by Torppa et al, 2012 . None had any diagnosed developmental or linguistic problems and normal-hearing status had been confi rmed in child welfare clinics.…”

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The perception of prosody and associated auditory cues in early-implanted children: The role of auditory working memory and musical activities

Torppa

Faulkner

Huotilainen

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International Journal of Audiology

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“…For instance, to record brain responses to out-of-key and out-of-scale stimuli subjects an EEG session of almost 1 h was required (Brattico et al, 2006). Most recently, MMN has been studied using a so-called multi-feature paradigm in which deviant sounds with different acoustic deviances alternate with standard sounds, allowing recordings of several MMNs as fast as in 15 min (Näätänen et al, 2004; Pakarinen et al, 2007; Partanen et al, 2011; Vuust et al, 2011; Torppa et al, 2012). In that paradigm, each standard sound is followed by a different deviant, sound sequence being, for instance, Standard Deviant-Frequency Standard Deviant-Intensity Standard Deviant-Duration etc.…”

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“…In that paradigm, each standard sound is followed by a different deviant, sound sequence being, for instance, Standard Deviant-Frequency Standard Deviant-Intensity Standard Deviant-Duration etc. These sound sequences can consist of sinusoidal sound complexes (Näätänen et al, 2004; Pakarinen et al, 2007), phonemes (Partanen et al, 2011), or alternating piano tones (Vuust et al, 2011; Torppa et al, 2012). …”

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Melodic multi-feature paradigm reveals auditory profiles in music-sound encoding

Tervaniemi

Huotilainen

Brattico

2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Musical expertise modulates preattentive neural sound discrimination. However, this evidence up to great extent originates from paradigms using very simple stimulation. Here we use a novel melody paradigm (revealing the auditory profile for six sound parameters in parallel) to compare memory-related mismatch negativity (MMN) and attention-related P3a responses recorded from non-musicians and Finnish Folk musicians. MMN emerged in both groups of participants for all sound changes (except for rhythmic changes in non-musicians). In Folk musicians, the MMN was enlarged for mistuned sounds when compared with non-musicians. This is taken to reflect their familiarity with pitch information which is in key position in Finnish folk music when compared with e.g., rhythmic information. The MMN was followed by P3a after timbre changes, rhythm changes, and melody transposition. The MMN and P3a topographies differentiated the groups for all sound changes. Thus, the melody paradigm offers a fast and cost-effective means for determining the auditory profile for music-sound encoding and also, importantly, for probing the effects of musical expertise on it.

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Cortical processing of musical sounds in children with Cochlear Implants

Cited by 37 publications

References 79 publications

Music Lessons Improve Auditory Perceptual and Cognitive Performance in Deaf Children

Music Lessons Improve Auditory Perceptual and Cognitive Performance in Deaf Children

The perception of prosody and associated auditory cues in early-implanted children: The role of auditory working memory and musical activities

Melodic multi-feature paradigm reveals auditory profiles in music-sound encoding

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