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Children with cochlear implants (CIs) struggle to perceive musical harmony. While they can distinguish chords, they cannot interpret musical syntax, limiting their music experience.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Audiology
  • Music Psychology

Background:

  • Cochlear implants (CIs) significantly alter auditory input, posing challenges for music perception in prelingually deafened children.
  • Musical harmony is crucial for conveying emotional and syntactic information in music.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the perception and categorization of musical harmony in young prelingually deaf children using CIs compared to normal-hearing (NH) peers.
  • To assess the impact of hearing age on the ability to discriminate musical chords and categorize cadences.

Main Methods:

  • Three psychoacoustic experiments were conducted with prelingually deaf CI users and NH children.
  • Participants performed tasks involving the discrimination and preference of musical chords and the categorization of musical cadences.

Main Results:

  • CI listeners' chord discrimination ability correlated with their hearing age but was less accurate than NH peers.
  • No significant differences were found between groups in chord type preference.
  • NH listeners could categorize cadences, with performance improving with age; CI listeners largely failed to categorize cadences.

Conclusions:

  • Prelingually deaf CI users have limited access to musical harmony, impacting their ability to discern chord qualities.
  • CI users are unable to interpret musical syntax through harmony, unlike their NH peers.
  • Findings suggest that while basic harmonic elements are partially available, complex musical structure remains inaccessible to CI users.