Identification of TV Tunes by Children with Cochlear Implants

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara Vongpaisal ◽  
Sandra E. Trehub ◽  
E. Glenn Schellenberg
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
Original Music ◽  
Closed Set ◽  
Pitch Processing ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
Prelingually Deaf

INTRINSIC PITCH PROCESSING LIMITATIONS OF cochlear implants constrain the perception of music, particularly melodies. We tested child implant users' ability to recognize music on the basis of incidental exposure.Using a closed-set task, prelingually deaf children with implants and hearing children were required to identify three renditions of the theme music from their favorite TV programs: a flute rendition of the main (sung) melody, a full instrumental version without lyrics, and the original music. Although child implant users were less accurate than hearing children, they successfully identified all versions of songs at above-chance levels——a finding that contradicts widespread claims of child and adult implant users' difficulties with melody identification.We attribute their success primarily to timing cues that match those of the original music.

Neurocognitive Functioning in Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William G. Kronenberger ◽  
David B. Pisoni
Keyword(s):  
Executive Function ◽  
Executive Functioning ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
Neurocognitive Functions ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
Prelingually Deaf

Cochlear implantation restores some attributes of hearing and spoken language to prelingually deaf children. However, reduced access to auditory and spoken-language experiences for children with cochlear implants can alter the development of downstream neurocognitive functions such as sequential processing and self-regulatory language skills, which are critical building blocks for executive functioning. Executive functioning is the active regulation of cognitive, behavioral, and emotional processes in the service of planned, organized, controlled, goal-driven behavior. This chapter presents findings from two primary lines of research on the development of executive functioning in prelingually deaf, early implanted children with cochlear implants. The first is identification of specific executive function domains that are at risk for delay in children with cochlear implants compared to hearing children. The second is reciprocal influences of executive function and spoken-language skills throughout development in children and adolescents with cochlear implants.

scholarly journals Talker Discrimination by Prelingually Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants: Preliminary Results

2002 ◽  
Vol 111 (5_suppl) ◽  
pp. 113-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miranda Cleary ◽  
David B. Pisoni
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
Sentence Condition ◽  
Language Outcome ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
Proportion Correct ◽  
Linguistic Content

Forty-four school-age children who had used a multichannel cochlear implant (CI) for at least 4 years were tested to assess their ability to discriminate differences between recorded pairs of female voices uttering sentences. Children were asked to respond “same voice” or “different voice” on each trial. Two conditions were examined. In one condition, the linguistic content of the sentence was always held constant and only the talker's voice varied from trial to trial. In another condition, the linguistic content of the utterance also varied so that to correctly respond “same voice,” the child needed to recognize that Two different sentences were spoken by the same talker. Data from normal-hearing children were used to establish that these tasks were well within the capabilities of children without hearing impairment. For the children with CIs, in the “fixed sentence condition” the mean proportion correct was 68%, which, although significantly different from the 50% score expected by chance, suggests that the children with CIs found this discrimination task rather difficult. In the “varied sentence condition,” however, the mean proportion correct was only 57%, indicating that the children were essentially unable to recognize an unfamiliar talker's voice when the linguistic content of the paired sentences differed. Correlations with other speech and language outcome measures are also reported.

scholarly journals Speech production in prelingually deaf children with cochlear implants: Formant analysis of japanese vowels

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 298-305
Author(s):  
Satoko Kasai ◽  
Norihito Takeichi ◽  
Nobuyuki Obara ◽  
Noriko Nishizawa ◽  
Eiko Tamashige ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Speech Production ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
Formant Analysis ◽  
Prelingually Deaf

Long-Term Language Levels and Reading Skills in Mandarin-Speaking Prelingually Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 359-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Che-Ming Wu ◽  
Yen-An Chen ◽  
Kai-Chieh Chan ◽  
Li-Ang Lee ◽  
Kuang-Hung Hsu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
Prelingually Deaf

Influence of Age at Implantation and of Residual Hearing on Speech Outcome Measures after Cochlear Implantation: Binary Partitioning Analysis

2002 ◽  
Vol 111 (5_suppl) ◽  
pp. 102-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamdy El-Hakim ◽  
Mohamed Abdolell ◽  
Blake C. Papsin ◽  
Richard J. Mount ◽  
Robert V. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Outcome Measures ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
Residual Hearing ◽  
Speech Understanding ◽  
Closed Set ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Critical Age ◽  
Simple Fashion ◽  
Significant Bearing ◽  
Prelingually Deaf

The goal of this study was to evaluate speech understanding outcomes in prelingually deaf children who use a cochlear implant device. Specifically, we discuss investigations on 2 prognostic variables — age at implantation and degree of residual hearing — and use a novel method: binary partitioning analysis. Our outcome measures are standard speech perception evaluations, including the Word Intelligibility by Picture Identification (WIPI) test, the Phonetically Balanced–Kindergarten (PBK) test, and the Glendonald Auditory Screening Procedure (GASP). Regarding age at implantation, we definitely showed that growth rates of speech understanding do relate to age at implantation, but not in a simple fashion. We used binary partitioning in an attempt to find the age at implantation that best separates the performances of children with younger versus older ages at implantation. We found that there is no one “critical age”; much appears to depend on the nature and difficulty (eg, whether open- or closed-set) of the test used. Regarding residual hearing, binary partitioning analysis was unable to show that the amount of residual hearing (as shown by preimplantation audiometric data) has any significant bearing on speech outcome measures in congenitally or prelingually deaf children.

Speech perception by prelingually deaf children using cochlear implants

1997 ◽  
Vol 117 (3) ◽  
pp. 180-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
R TYLER ◽  
H FRYAUFBERTSCHY ◽  
D KELSAY ◽  
B GANTZ ◽  
G WOODWORTH ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Speech Perception ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
Prelingually Deaf
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