E031 Music for little digital ears – Music training with preschool children using cochlear implants

Petersen, Brenda; Hansen, R. Hardgrove; Beyer, Kit B.; Mortensen, Malene Vejby; Vuust, Peter

doi:10.1016/s0165-5876(11)70339-1

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“…The active training part totaled 20 h, scheduled over 6 days, and distributed over 2 weeks. The activities were formed by three elements: rhythm training, singing, and ear training and were led by two masters’ students from Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus and the first author, who has previous experience with music training of adult and pediatric CI users (Petersen et al, 2011 , 2012 ). Training took place in the school’s two music classrooms, which were acoustically well suited and well equipped.…”

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Brain Responses to Musical Feature Changes in Adolescent Cochlear Implant Users

Petersen

Weed

Sandmann

et al. 2015

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Cochlear implants (CIs) are primarily designed to assist deaf individuals in perception of speech, although possibilities for music fruition have also been documented. Previous studies have indicated the existence of neural correlates of residual music skills in postlingually deaf adults and children. However, little is known about the behavioral and neural correlates of music perception in the new generation of prelingually deaf adolescents who grew up with CIs. With electroencephalography (EEG), we recorded the mismatch negativity (MMN) of the auditory event-related potential to changes in musical features in adolescent CI users and in normal-hearing (NH) age mates. EEG recordings and behavioral testing were carried out before (T1) and after (T2) a 2-week music training program for the CI users and in two sessions equally separated in time for NH controls. We found significant MMNs in adolescent CI users for deviations in timbre, intensity, and rhythm, indicating residual neural prerequisites for musical feature processing. By contrast, only one of the two pitch deviants elicited an MMN in CI users. This pitch discrimination deficit was supported by behavioral measures, in which CI users scored significantly below the NH level. Overall, MMN amplitudes were significantly smaller in CI users than in NH controls, suggesting poorer music discrimination ability. Despite compliance from the CI participants, we found no effect of the music training, likely resulting from the brevity of the program. This is the first study showing significant brain responses to musical feature changes in prelingually deaf adolescent CI users and their associations with behavioral measures, implying neural predispositions for at least some aspects of music processing. Future studies should test any beneficial effects of a longer lasting music intervention in adolescent CI users.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%