“…The Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia (MBEA) test (Peretz et al, 2003) has proven to be a sensitive, reliable, and valid tool for identifying impaired music perception in individuals with amusia (Vuvan et al, 2018) as well as in adult and child CI users (Cooper et al, 2008;Hopyan et al, 2012;Polonenko et al, 2017;Lima et al, 2018). The child's MBEA (cMBEA) has slight differences from the adult version (MBEA) (Peretz et al, 2013); the melodies are shorter (∼7 notes rather than ∼10), there are fewer test items (20 rather than 30 in each subtest), the metric test is not included, and 10 different instruments are used to make the test more engaging for children.…”