The family oriented musical training for children with cochlear implants: Speech and musical perception results of two year follow-up

Yücel, Esra; Sennaroğlu, Gonca; Belgi̇n, Erol

doi:10.1016/j.ijporl.2009.04.009

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“…Training melodic pitch perception after implantation may not provide such robust patterns. On the other hand, an earlier training provided to hearing-impaired children before they reach the level of profound hearing loss may provide positive results, due to yet strong plasticity experienced in childhood (Hyde et al, 2009; Moreno et al, 2009; Yucel et al, 2009; Torppa et al, 2014). Further research with pre- and post-lingually deafened CI musicians and non-musicians, with or without music training provided, may reveal whether patterns developed during previous acoustic hearing or during post-implantation electric hearing may benefit pitch, music, and speech perception after implantation.…”

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The musician effect: does it persist under degraded pitch conditions of cochlear implant simulations?

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Cochlear implants (CIs) are auditory prostheses that restore hearing via electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve. Compared to normal acoustic hearing, sounds transmitted through the CI are spectro-temporally degraded, causing difficulties in challenging listening tasks such as speech intelligibility in noise and perception of music. In normal hearing (NH), musicians have been shown to better perform than non-musicians in auditory processing and perception, especially for challenging listening tasks. This “musician effect” was attributed to better processing of pitch cues, as well as better overall auditory cognitive functioning in musicians. Does the musician effect persist when pitch cues are degraded, as it would be in signals transmitted through a CI? To answer this question, NH musicians and non-musicians were tested while listening to unprocessed signals or to signals processed by an acoustic CI simulation. The task increasingly depended on pitch perception: (1) speech intelligibility (words and sentences) in quiet or in noise, (2) vocal emotion identification, and (3) melodic contour identification (MCI). For speech perception, there was no musician effect with the unprocessed stimuli, and a small musician effect only for word identification in one noise condition, in the CI simulation. For emotion identification, there was a small musician effect for both. For MCI, there was a large musician effect for both. Overall, the effect was stronger as the importance of pitch in the listening task increased. This suggests that the musician effect may be more rooted in pitch perception, rather than in a global advantage in cognitive processing (in which musicians would have performed better in all tasks). The results further suggest that musical training before (and possibly after) implantation might offer some advantage in pitch processing that could partially benefit speech perception, and more strongly emotion and music perception.

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“…Chen et al (2010) found that, in Chinese pediatric CI users, the duration of musical training was positively correlated with pitch-perception accuracy. Yucel, Sennaroglu, and Belgin (2009) found that pediatric CI users who received structured music training (e.g., using a take-home keyboard) developed significantly better music perception skills than the control group that received no explicit training. Taken together, these studies suggest that music training may benefit CI users' music perception, which may in turn improve their quality of life.…”

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Benefits of Music Training in Mandarin-Speaking Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users

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Wang

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J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose: The aims of this study were to assess young (5-to 10-year-old) Mandarin-speaking cochlear implant (CI) users' musical pitch perception and to assess the benefits of computer-based home training on performance. Method: Melodic contour identification (MCI) was used to assess musical pitch perception in 14 Mandarin-speaking pediatric CI users; the instrument timbre and the contour length were varied as experimental parameters. Six subjects received subsequent MCI training on their home computer in which auditory and visual feedback were provided. Results: MCI performance was generally poor (grand mean = 33.3% correct) and highly variable, with scores ranging from 9.3% to 98.1% correct; there was no significant effect of instrument timbre or contour length on performance ( p > .05). After 4 weeks of training, performance sharply improved. Follow-up measures that were conducted 8 weeks after training was stopped showed no significant decline in MCI performance. For the 6 trained subjects, there was a significant effect of contour length for the training and follow-up measures. Conclusion: These preliminary data suggest that although baseline MCI performance initially may be poor, training may greatly improve Mandarin-speaking pediatric CI users' melodic pitch perception.

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“…Moreover, if musical training improves general auditory perception, then it is likely that the perception of non-music sounds, such as linguistic stimuli, would also improve. Only two published studies have investigated the effect of music training on transfer to the linguistic domain in children (Yucel et al, 2009; Torppa et al, 2014). In the first (Yucel et al, 2009), 18 cochlear-implanted children were enrolled in a training program based on auditory–verbal learning.…”

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“…Only two published studies have investigated the effect of music training on transfer to the linguistic domain in children (Yucel et al, 2009; Torppa et al, 2014). In the first (Yucel et al, 2009), 18 cochlear-implanted children were enrolled in a training program based on auditory–verbal learning. In addition to this program, nine children received musical stimulation at home from their parents.…”

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Music Lessons Improve Auditory Perceptual and Cognitive Performance in Deaf Children

Rochette

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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The family oriented musical training for children with cochlear implants: Speech and musical perception results of two year follow-up

Cited by 65 publications

References 29 publications

The musician effect: does it persist under degraded pitch conditions of cochlear implant simulations?

The musician effect: does it persist under degraded pitch conditions of cochlear implant simulations?

Benefits of Music Training in Mandarin-Speaking Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users

Music Lessons Improve Auditory Perceptual and Cognitive Performance in Deaf Children

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