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Getting the Feeling? The Salience of Music Emotion with a Cochlear Implant.

David R Friedmann1, Emily Spitzer1, Joshua Horton1

  • 1Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, U.S.A.

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Summary
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Cochlear implants (CI) users struggle to identify musical emotions compared to normal hearing listeners. This may explain why many CI patients lose interest in music after implantation.

Keywords:
cochlear implantshearing lossmusic emotionmusic perception

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Area of Science:

  • Auditory Neuroscience
  • Music Perception
  • Prosthetic Hearing

Background:

  • Music conveys emotional content, but cochlear implant (CI) signal processing may distort this information.
  • The ability of CI users to perceive targeted emotions in music via electric stimulation is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether cochlear implant (CI) users can identify targeted emotions in music through electric-only stimulation.
  • To compare emotion recognition in CI users versus normal hearing (NH) individuals.

Main Methods:

  • Twenty musical excerpts with pre-concordant emotions (happy, sad, scary, peaceful) were presented to 20 CI users and 8 NH controls via an iPad application.
  • Participants also completed a music background questionnaire.

Main Results:

  • CI users identified target emotions in 57% of excerpts, significantly lower than NH listeners (76.9%).
  • Happy emotions were recognized by CI users (84%) more often than by NH listeners (75%), but other emotions were more challenging for CI users.
  • CI experience, speech scores, and musical background did not correlate with performance.

Conclusions:

  • Current cochlear implant (CI) technology and signal processing strategies limit the accurate perception of musical emotions.
  • This deficit in emotional music perception may contribute to reduced music engagement in CI recipients post-implantation.