Cochlear implant users experience the sound-to-music effect.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The speech-to-song illusion is a robust effect where repeated speech induces the perception of singing; this effect has been extended to repeated excerpts of environmental sounds (sound-to-music effect). Here we asked whether repetition could elicit musical percepts in cochlear implant (CI) users, who experience challenges with perceiving music due to both physiological and device limitations.

Methods

Thirty adult CI users and thirty age-matched controls with normal hearing (NH) completed two repetition experiments for speech and nonspeech sounds (water droplets). We hypothesized that CI users would experience the sound-to-music effect from temporal/rhythmic cues alone, but to a lesser magnitude compared to NH controls, given the limited access to spectral infor

SUBMITTER: Kasdan AV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11463729 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature