Implicit Processing of Pitch in Postlingually Deafened Cochlear Implant Users
Cochlear implant (CI) users can only access limited pitch information through their device, which hinders music appreciation. Poor music perception may not only be due to CI technical limitations; lack of training or negative attitudes toward the electric sound might also contribute to it. Our study...
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| author | Barbara Tillmann Barbara Tillmann Barbara Tillmann Bénédicte Poulin-Charronnat Bénédicte Poulin-Charronnat Bénédicte Poulin-Charronnat Bénédicte Poulin-Charronnat Etienne Gaudrain Etienne Gaudrain Etienne Gaudrain Etienne Gaudrain Idrick Akhoun Charles Delbé Charles Delbé Charles Delbé Charles Delbé Eric Truy Eric Truy Eric Truy Lionel Collet Lionel Collet |
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| description | Cochlear implant (CI) users can only access limited pitch information through their device, which hinders music appreciation. Poor music perception may not only be due to CI technical limitations; lack of training or negative attitudes toward the electric sound might also contribute to it. Our study investigated with an implicit (indirect) investigation method whether poorly transmitted pitch information, presented as musical chords, can activate listeners’ knowledge about musical structures acquired prior to deafness. Seven postlingually deafened adult CI users participated in a musical priming paradigm investigating pitch processing without explicit judgments. Sequences made of eight sung-chords that ended on either a musically related (expected) target chord or a less-related (less-expected) target chord were presented. The use of a priming task based on linguistic features allowed CI patients to perform fast judgments on target chords in the sung music. If listeners’ musical knowledge is activated and allows for tonal expectations (as in normal-hearing listeners), faster response times were expected for related targets than less-related targets. However, if the pitch percept is too different and does not activate musical knowledge acquired prior to deafness, storing pitch information in a short-term memory buffer predicts the opposite pattern. If transmitted pitch information is too poor, no difference in response times should be observed. Results showed that CI patients were able to perform the linguistic task on the sung chords, but correct response times indicated sensory priming, with faster response times observed for the less-related targets: CI patients processed at least some of the pitch information of the musical sequences, which was stored in an auditory short-term memory and influenced chord processing. This finding suggests that the signal transmitted via electric hearing led to a pitch percept that was too different from that based on acoustic hearing, so that it did not automatically activate listeners’ previously acquired musical structure knowledge. However, the transmitted signal seems sufficiently informative to lead to sensory priming. These findings are encouraging for the development of pitch-related training programs for CI patients, despite the current technological limitations of the CI coding. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-757659d8928441268b862128333461212022-12-22T03:19:39ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782019-09-011010.3389/fpsyg.2019.01990469256Implicit Processing of Pitch in Postlingually Deafened Cochlear Implant UsersBarbara Tillmann0Barbara Tillmann1Barbara Tillmann2Bénédicte Poulin-Charronnat3Bénédicte Poulin-Charronnat4Bénédicte Poulin-Charronnat5Bénédicte Poulin-Charronnat6Etienne Gaudrain7Etienne Gaudrain8Etienne Gaudrain9Etienne Gaudrain10Idrick Akhoun11Charles Delbé12Charles Delbé13Charles Delbé14Charles Delbé15Eric Truy16Eric Truy17Eric Truy18Lionel Collet19Lionel Collet20CNRS UMR5292, INSERM U1028, Auditory Cognition and Psychoacoustics Team, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Lyon, FranceUniversity of Lyon, Lyon, FranceUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, FranceCNRS UMR5292, INSERM U1028, Auditory Cognition and Psychoacoustics Team, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Lyon, FranceUniversity of Lyon, Lyon, FranceUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, FranceLEAD-CNRS, UMR5022, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, FranceCNRS UMR5292, INSERM U1028, Auditory Cognition and Psychoacoustics Team, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Lyon, FranceUniversity of Lyon, Lyon, FranceUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, FranceUniversity Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, NetherlandsSchool of Psychological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United KingdomCNRS UMR5292, INSERM U1028, Auditory Cognition and Psychoacoustics Team, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Lyon, FranceUniversity of Lyon, Lyon, FranceUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, FranceLEAD-CNRS, UMR5022, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, FranceUniversity of Lyon, Lyon, FranceUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, FranceCNRS UMR5292, INSERM U1028, Brain Dynamics and Cognition Team, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Lyon, FranceUniversity of Lyon, Lyon, FranceUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, FranceCochlear implant (CI) users can only access limited pitch information through their device, which hinders music appreciation. Poor music perception may not only be due to CI technical limitations; lack of training or negative attitudes toward the electric sound might also contribute to it. Our study investigated with an implicit (indirect) investigation method whether poorly transmitted pitch information, presented as musical chords, can activate listeners’ knowledge about musical structures acquired prior to deafness. Seven postlingually deafened adult CI users participated in a musical priming paradigm investigating pitch processing without explicit judgments. Sequences made of eight sung-chords that ended on either a musically related (expected) target chord or a less-related (less-expected) target chord were presented. The use of a priming task based on linguistic features allowed CI patients to perform fast judgments on target chords in the sung music. If listeners’ musical knowledge is activated and allows for tonal expectations (as in normal-hearing listeners), faster response times were expected for related targets than less-related targets. However, if the pitch percept is too different and does not activate musical knowledge acquired prior to deafness, storing pitch information in a short-term memory buffer predicts the opposite pattern. If transmitted pitch information is too poor, no difference in response times should be observed. Results showed that CI patients were able to perform the linguistic task on the sung chords, but correct response times indicated sensory priming, with faster response times observed for the less-related targets: CI patients processed at least some of the pitch information of the musical sequences, which was stored in an auditory short-term memory and influenced chord processing. This finding suggests that the signal transmitted via electric hearing led to a pitch percept that was too different from that based on acoustic hearing, so that it did not automatically activate listeners’ previously acquired musical structure knowledge. However, the transmitted signal seems sufficiently informative to lead to sensory priming. These findings are encouraging for the development of pitch-related training programs for CI patients, despite the current technological limitations of the CI coding.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01990/fullmusic perceptioncochlear implantsimplicit investigation methodauditory sensory memorypriming |
| spellingShingle | Barbara Tillmann Barbara Tillmann Barbara Tillmann Bénédicte Poulin-Charronnat Bénédicte Poulin-Charronnat Bénédicte Poulin-Charronnat Bénédicte Poulin-Charronnat Etienne Gaudrain Etienne Gaudrain Etienne Gaudrain Etienne Gaudrain Idrick Akhoun Charles Delbé Charles Delbé Charles Delbé Charles Delbé Eric Truy Eric Truy Eric Truy Lionel Collet Lionel Collet Implicit Processing of Pitch in Postlingually Deafened Cochlear Implant Users Frontiers in Psychology music perception cochlear implants implicit investigation method auditory sensory memory priming |
| title | Implicit Processing of Pitch in Postlingually Deafened Cochlear Implant Users |
| title_full | Implicit Processing of Pitch in Postlingually Deafened Cochlear Implant Users |
| title_fullStr | Implicit Processing of Pitch in Postlingually Deafened Cochlear Implant Users |
| title_full_unstemmed | Implicit Processing of Pitch in Postlingually Deafened Cochlear Implant Users |
| title_short | Implicit Processing of Pitch in Postlingually Deafened Cochlear Implant Users |
| title_sort | implicit processing of pitch in postlingually deafened cochlear implant users |
| topic | music perception cochlear implants implicit investigation method auditory sensory memory priming |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01990/full |
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