Dance Movements Enhance Song Learning in Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants.

ABSTRACT: Music perception of cochlear implants (CI) users is constrained by the absence of salient musical pitch cues crucial for melody identification, but is made possible by timing cues that are largely preserved by current devices. While musical timing cues, including beats and rhythms, are a potential route to music learning, it is not known what extent they are perceptible to CI users in complex sound scenes, especially when pitch and timbral features can co-occur and obscure these musical features. The task at hand, then, becomes one of optimizing the available timing cues for young CI users by exploring ways that they might be perceived and encoded simultaneously across multiple modalities. Accordingly, we examined whether training tasks that engage active music listening through dance migh

SUBMITTER: Vongpaisal T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4908111 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature