Music in noise recognition: An EEG study of listening effort in cochlear implant users and normal hearing controls.

ABSTRACT: Despite the plethora of studies investigating listening effort and the amount of research concerning music perception by cochlear implant (CI) users, the investigation of the influence of background noise on music processing has never been performed. Given the typical speech in noise recognition task for the listening effort assessment, the aim of the present study was to investigate the listening effort during an emotional categorization task on musical pieces with different levels of background noise. The listening effort was investigated, in addition to participants' ratings and performances, using EEG features known to be involved in such phenomenon, that is alpha activity in parietal areas and in the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), that includes the Broca's area. Results showed tha

SUBMITTER: Cartocci G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10414671 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature