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Otology/Neurotology

Music and lexical tone perception in chinese adult cochlear implant users†

  1. Shuo Wang PhD, MClinAud1,2,
  2. Bo Liu MD1,2,
  3. Ruijuan Dong MD1,2,
  4. Yun Zhou MD1,2,
  5. Jing Li BS1,2,
  6. Beier Qi MD1,2,
  7. Xueqing Chen MD1,2,
  8. Demin Han MD, PhD1,2,‡,
  9. Luo Zhang MD, PhD1,2,‡,*

Article first published online: 23 FEB 2012

DOI: 10.1002/lary.23271

Issue

The Laryngoscope

The Laryngoscope

Volume 122, Issue 6, pages 1353–1360, June 2012

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How to Cite

Wang, S., Liu, B., Dong, R., Zhou, Y., Li, J., Qi, B., Chen, X., Han, D. and Zhang, L. (2012), Music and lexical tone perception in chinese adult cochlear implant users. The Laryngoscope, 122: 1353–1360. doi: 10.1002/lary.23271

Author Information

  1. 1

    Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University

  2. 2

    Key Laboratory of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (Capital Medical University), Ministry of Education, Beijing, China

  1. ‡

    Drs. Han and Zhang contributed equally to this work.

*No. 17 Hou Gou Lane, Chong Nei Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China 100005

  1. †

    The authors have no other funding, financial relationships, or conflicts of interest to disclose.

  2. ‡

    Drs. Han and Zhang contributed equally to this work.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 1 JUN 2012
  2. Article first published online: 23 FEB 2012
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 7 FEB 2012
  4. Manuscript Revised: 31 JAN 2012
  5. Manuscript Received: 31 DEC 2011

Funded by

  • National Natural Science Foundation of China. Grant Number: #81070796
  • Beijing Natural Science Foundation. Grant Number: #7122034, #7123210
  • Science and Technology Ministry, PR China. Grant Number: 2009DFA32200
  • high-level scientific and technological elites in medical science from the Beijing Health Bureau. Grant Number: 2009-3-29
  • Research Foundation of Beijing Tongren Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University. Grant Number: 2012-YJJ-003

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Keywords:

  • Lexical tone perception;
  • music perception;
  • postlingually deafened;
  • cochlear implant;
  • Level of Evidence: 3b

Abstract

Objectives/Hypothesis:

The present study's aim was to assess the music perception ability for Chinese adult cochlear implant users and to investigate the correlation between music and Mandarin-Chinese lexical tone perception.

Study Design:

Case-control study.

Methods:

Twenty normal-hearing and 21 adult cochlear implant users participated in the Musical Sounds in Cochlear Implants (MuSIC) perception test, including six objective and two subjective musical subtests. The comparison of music perception performance was made between normal-hearing and cochlear implant subjects. Sixteen of the 21 cochlear implant users also performed a tone identification test to investigate the correlation between music and tone perception.

Results:

Cochlear implant users performed significantly worse than normal-hearing subjects on pitch discrimination, instrument identification, and instrument detection tests, whereas close to normal-hearing subjects on melody discrimination, chords discrimination, rhythm discrimination, and emotion and dissonance rating subtests. Lexical tone perception was significantly correlated with pitch discrimination, melody discrimination, and instrument identification tests. Duration of hearing aid use was found to be correlated with pitch discrimination ability of cochlear implant users.

Conclusions:

Chinese postlingually deafened cochlear implant users performed significantly poorer in pitch discrimination and timbre perception tasks than normal-hearing listeners. Lexical tone perception was found to be significantly correlated with music pitch perception, supporting the notion that tone and music perception may share a similar pitch perception mechanism.

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