Comparison of Two Music Training Approaches on Music and Speech Perception in Cochlear Implant Users.

ABSTRACT: In normal-hearing (NH) adults, long-term music training may benefit music and speech perception, even when listening to spectro-temporally degraded signals as experienced by cochlear implant (CI) users. In this study, we compared two different music training approaches in CI users and their effects on speech and music perception, as it remains unclear which approach to music training might be best. The approaches differed in terms of music exercises and social interaction. For the pitch/timbre group, melodic contour identification (MCI) training was performed using computer software. For the music therapy group, training involved face-to-face group exercises (rhythm perception, musical speech perception, music perception, singing, vocal emotion identification, and music improvisation). For

SUBMITTER: Fuller CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5894911 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature