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Haumann NT, Petersen B, Friis Andersen AS, Faulkner KF, Brattico E, Vuust P. Mismatch negativity as a marker of music perception in individual cochlear implant users: A spike density component analysis study. Clin Neurophysiol 2023; 148:76-92. [PMID: 36822119 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2023.01.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2022] [Revised: 01/19/2023] [Accepted: 01/24/2023] [Indexed: 02/10/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Ninety percent of cochlear implant (CI) users are interested in improving their music perception. However, only few objective behavioral and neurophysiological tests have been developed for tracing the development of music discrimination skills in CI users. In this study, we aimed to obtain an accurate individual mismatch negativity (MMN) marker that could predict behavioral auditory discrimination thresholds. METHODS We measured the individual MMN response to four magnitudes of deviations in four different musical features (intensity, pitch, timbre, and rhythm) in a rare sample of experienced CI users and a control sample of normally hearing participants. We applied a recently developed spike density component analysis (SCA), which can suppress confounding alpha waves, and contrasted it with previously proposed methods. RESULTS Statistically detected individual MMN predicted attentive sound discrimination ability with high accuracy: for CI users 89.2% (278/312 cases) and for controls 90.5% (384/424 cases). As expected, MMN was detected for fewer CI users when the sound deviants were of smaller magnitude. CONCLUSIONS The findings support the use of MMN responses in individual CI users as a diagnostic tool for testing music perception. SIGNIFICANCE For CI users, the new SCA method provided more accurate and replicable diagnostic detections than preceding state-of-the-art.
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- Niels Trusbak Haumann
- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University and The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg, Universitetsbyen 3, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University and The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg, Universitetsbyen 3, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University and The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg, Universitetsbyen 3, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University and The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg, Universitetsbyen 3, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University and The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg, Universitetsbyen 3, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Wagner L, Ladek AS, Plontke SK, Rahne T. Electrically evoked mismatch negativity responses to loudness and pitch cues in cochlear implant users. Sci Rep 2023; 13:2413. [PMID: 36765122 PMCID: PMC9918473 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-29422-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2022] [Accepted: 02/03/2023] [Indexed: 02/12/2023] Open
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Objective measurements could improve cochlear implant (CI) fitting, especially for CI users who have difficulty assessing their hearing impressions. In this study, we investigated the electrically evoked mismatch negativity (eMMN) brain potential as a mainly preattentive response to pitch and loudness changes. In an electrophysiological exploratory study with 21 CI users, pitch and loudness cues were presented in controlled oddball paradigms that directly electrically stimulated the CI via software. Out of them 17 valid data sets were analyzed. A pitch cue was produced by changing the stimulating CI electrodes (pairs of adjacent electrodes). A loudness cue originated from changing the stimulation amplitude on one CI electrode. MMN responses were measured unsing clinical electroencephalography recording according to a standard recording protocol. At the group level, significant eMMN responses were elicited for loudness cues and for pitch cues at basal electrode pairs but not at apical electrode pairs. The effect of deviance direction was not significant and no stimulus artifacts were observed. Recording an electrically evoked MMN in response to loudness changes in CI users is generally feasible, and is, therefore, promising to support CI fitting procedures in the future. Detection of pitch cues would require a greater electrode distance between selected electrodes for standard and deviant stimuli, especially in apical regions. A routine clinical setup can be used to measure eMMN.
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- Luise Wagner
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Medicine Halle (Saale), University Hospital Halle (Saale), Ernst-Grube-Straße 40, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany.
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Medicine Halle (Saale), University Hospital Halle (Saale), Ernst-Grube-Straße 40, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Medicine Halle (Saale), University Hospital Halle (Saale), Ernst-Grube-Straße 40, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Medicine Halle (Saale), University Hospital Halle (Saale), Ernst-Grube-Straße 40, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany
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Beynon AJ, Luijten BM, Mylanus EAM. Intracorporeal Cortical Telemetry as a Step to Automatic Closed-Loop EEG-Based CI Fitting: A Proof of Concept. Audiol Res 2021; 11:691-705. [PMID: 34940020 PMCID: PMC8698912 DOI: 10.3390/audiolres11040062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2021] [Revised: 11/04/2021] [Accepted: 12/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Electrically evoked auditory potentials have been used to predict auditory thresholds in patients with a cochlear implant (CI). However, with exception of electrically evoked compound action potentials (eCAP), conventional extracorporeal EEG recording devices are still needed. Until now, built-in (intracorporeal) back-telemetry options are limited to eCAPs. Intracorporeal recording of auditory responses beyond the cochlea is still lacking. This study describes the feasibility of obtaining longer latency cortical responses by concatenating interleaved short recording time windows used for eCAP recordings. Extracochlear reference electrodes were dedicated to record cortical responses, while intracochlear electrodes were used for stimulation, enabling intracorporeal telemetry (i.e., without an EEG device) to assess higher cortical processing in CI recipients. Simultaneous extra- and intra-corporeal recordings showed that it is feasible to obtain intracorporeal slow vertex potentials with a CI similar to those obtained by conventional extracorporeal EEG recordings. Our data demonstrate a proof of concept of closed-loop intracorporeal auditory cortical response telemetry (ICT) with a cochlear implant device. This research breaks new ground for next generation CI devices to assess higher cortical neural processing based on acute or continuous EEG telemetry to enable individualized automatic and/or adaptive CI fitting with only a CI.
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- Andy J. Beynon
- Vestibular & Auditory Evoked Potential Lab, Department Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, 6525 EX Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Hearing & Implants, Department Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Donders Center Medical Neuroscience, 6525 EX Nijmegen, The Netherlands; (B.M.L.); (E.A.M.M.)
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- Hearing & Implants, Department Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Donders Center Medical Neuroscience, 6525 EX Nijmegen, The Netherlands; (B.M.L.); (E.A.M.M.)
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- Hearing & Implants, Department Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Donders Center Medical Neuroscience, 6525 EX Nijmegen, The Netherlands; (B.M.L.); (E.A.M.M.)
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Fowler SL, Calhoun H, Warner-Czyz AD. Music Perception and Speech-in-Noise Skills of Typical Hearing and Cochlear Implant Listeners. Am J Audiol 2021; 30:170-181. [PMID: 33647221 DOI: 10.1044/2020_aja-20-00116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Purpose Adult cochlear implant (CI) users rate music as one of the most important auditory stimuli, second to speech perception. However, few studies simultaneously examine music perception and speech-in-noise perception in adult CI recipients. This study explores the effect of auditory status on music perception and speech-in-noise perception recognition in noise as well as the relationship among music engagement, music perception, and speech-in-noise perception. Method Participants include 10 adults with typical hearing (TH) and 10 adults with long-term CI use. All participants completed the Music-Related Quality of Life Questionnaire, which assesses subjective music experiences and their importance; the Pitch Direction Discrimination, Familiar Melody Recognition, and Timbre Recognition subtests of the Clinical Assessment of Music Perception for Cochlear Implants; the Unfamiliar Melody Recognition subtest of the Profile of Music Perception Skills; and the Bamford-Kowal-Bench Speech-in-Noise Test. Results The TH group significantly outperformed the CI group for speech-in-noise perception and on all four music perception tasks. The CI group exhibited not only significantly poorer mean scores but also greater variability in performance compared to the TH group. Only Familiar Melody Recognition and Unfamiliar Melody Recognition subtests significantly correlated with speech-in-noise scores. Conclusions Patients and professionals should not assume speech perception and music perception in adult CI users derive from the same auditory or cognitive foundations. The lack of significant relationships among music engagement, music perception, and speech-in-noise perception scores in adult CI users suggests this population enjoys music despite poor and variable performance in discrete music tasks.
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- Stephanie L. Fowler
- Callier Center for Communication Disorders, The University of Texas at Dallas
- Department of Speech, Language and Hearing, The University of Texas at Dallas
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- Department of Speech, Language and Hearing, The University of Texas at Dallas
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- Department of Speech, Language and Hearing, The University of Texas at Dallas
- UT Pediatric Cochlear Implant Program, The University of Texas at Dallas
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A Neurophysiological Study of Musical Pitch Identification in Mandarin-Speaking Cochlear Implant Users. Neural Plast 2020; 2020:4576729. [PMID: 32774355 PMCID: PMC7396015 DOI: 10.1155/2020/4576729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2020] [Revised: 05/26/2020] [Accepted: 06/24/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Music perception in cochlear implant (CI) users is far from satisfactory, not only because of the technological limitations of current CI devices but also due to the neurophysiological alterations that generally accompany deafness. Early behavioral studies revealed that similar mechanisms underlie musical and lexical pitch perception in CI-based electric hearing. Although neurophysiological studies of the musical pitch perception of English-speaking CI users are actively ongoing, little such research has been conducted with Mandarin-speaking CI users; as Mandarin is a tonal language, these individuals require pitch information to understand speech. The aim of this work was to study the neurophysiological mechanisms accounting for the musical pitch identification abilities of Mandarin-speaking CI users and normal-hearing (NH) listeners. Behavioral and mismatch negativity (MMN) data were analyzed to examine musical pitch processing performance. Moreover, neurophysiological results from CI users with good and bad pitch discrimination performance (according to the just-noticeable differences (JND) and pitch-direction discrimination (PDD) tasks) were compared to identify cortical responses associated with musical pitch perception differences. The MMN experiment was conducted using a passive oddball paradigm, with musical tone C4 (262 Hz) presented as the standard and tones D4 (294 Hz), E4 (330 Hz), G#4 (415 Hz), and C5 (523 Hz) presented as deviants. CI users demonstrated worse musical pitch discrimination ability than did NH listeners, as reflected by larger JND and PDD thresholds for pitch identification, and significantly increased latencies and reduced amplitudes in MMN responses. Good CI performers had better MMN results than did bad performers. Consistent with findings for English-speaking CI users, the results of this work suggest that MMN is a viable marker of cortical pitch perception in Mandarin-speaking CI users.
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Shen M, Li Y, Long M, Wang L, Liang W, Chen Z, Ma Y, Guo Y, Bi Q, Zhang Y. The development of hearing in prelingually deaf children with white matter changes in the first year after cochlear implantation. Acta Otolaryngol 2020; 140:387-394. [PMID: 32022620 DOI: 10.1080/00016489.2020.1720285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Background: The development of hearing and plasticity of brain after cochlear implantation (CI) for prelingually deaf children with white matter changes (group A) is unclear.Objective: To investigate the development of hearing for children in group A during 1 year after CI activation, compared with non-complicated peers (group B).Materials and methods: Twenty-one and 22 children (average age is about 5 years old) were included in groups A and B, respectively. Questionnaires were used to assess the hearing ability at pre-CI, 1, 6 and 12 months after CI activation (called Mpre, M1, M6, M12 for short). In addition, MMRs to pure tones were investigated at the same three time points after CI.Results: There is no significant difference in scores on questionnaires, MMR incidence, latency or amplitude between children in two groups. Scores on questionnaires showed a significant progressive improvement in two groups during the first year after CI. Furthermore, MMR incidence at M6 was significantly higher than that at M1, and MMR latency at M12 was significantly shorter than that at M1.Conclusions and significance: Prelingually deaf children with white matter changes achieved rapid development and comparable outcomes with CI peers over the first year after CI.
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- Min Shen
- China Rehabilitation Research Center for Hearing and Speech Impairment, Beijing, China
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- China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China
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- China Rehabilitation Research Center for Hearing and Speech Impairment, Beijing, China
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- China Rehabilitation Research Center for Hearing and Speech Impairment, Beijing, China
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- China Rehabilitation Research Center for Hearing and Speech Impairment, Beijing, China
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- China Rehabilitation Research Center for Hearing and Speech Impairment, Beijing, China
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- China Rehabilitation Research Center for Hearing and Speech Impairment, Beijing, China
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- China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China
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- China Rehabilitation Research Center for Hearing and Speech Impairment, Beijing, China
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Petersen B, Andersen ASF, Haumann NT, Højlund A, Dietz MJ, Michel F, Riis SK, Brattico E, Vuust P. The CI MuMuFe - A New MMN Paradigm for Measuring Music Discrimination in Electric Hearing. Front Neurosci 2020; 14:2. [PMID: 32038152 PMCID: PMC6990974 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2019] [Accepted: 01/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Cochlear implants (CIs) allow good perception of speech while music listening is unsatisfactory, leading to reduced music enjoyment. Hence, a number of ongoing efforts aim to improve music perception with a CI. Regardless of the nature of these efforts, effect measurements must be valid and reliable. While auditory skills are typically examined by behavioral methods, recording of the mismatch negativity (MMN) response, using electroencephalography (EEG), has recently been applied successfully as a supplementary objective measure. Eleven adult CI users and 14 normally hearing (NH) controls took part in the present study. To measure their detailed discrimination of fundamental features of music we applied a new multifeature MMN-paradigm which presented four music deviants at four levels of magnitude, incorporating a novel "no-standard" approach to be tested with CI users for the first time. A supplementary test measured behavioral discrimination of the same deviants and levels. The MMN-paradigm elicited significant MMN responses to all levels of deviants in both groups. Furthermore, the CI-users' MMN amplitudes and latencies were not significantly different from those of NH controls. Both groups showed MMN strength that was in overall alignment with the deviation magnitude. In CI users, however, discrimination of pitch levels remained undifferentiated. On average, CI users' behavioral performance was significantly below that of the NH group, mainly due to poor pitch discrimination. Although no significant effects were found, CI users' behavioral results tended to be in accordance with deviation magnitude, most prominently manifested in discrimination of the rhythm deviant. In summary, the study indicates that CI users may be able to discriminate subtle changes in basic musical features both in terms of automatic neural responses and of attended behavioral detection. Despite high complexity, the new CI MuMuFe paradigm and the "no-standard" approach provided reliable results, suggesting that it may serve as a relevant tool in future CI research. For clinical use, future studies should investigate the possibility of applying the paradigm with the purpose of assessing discrimination skills not only at the group level but also at the individual level.
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- Bjørn Petersen
- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University and The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University and The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University and The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Audiological Clinic, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University and The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University and The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus, Denmark
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Xu D, Zheng D, Chen F. Studying the Effect of Carrier Type on the Perception of Vocoded Stimuli via Mismatch Negativity. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2020; 2019:3167-3170. [PMID: 31946560 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2019.8856932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Vocoder processing has been long used in many studies to examine how acoustic cues affect speech understanding and auditory processing. Early behavioral studies have shown that the type of carrier (i.e., pure-tone or noise) used in vocoding process affected the intelligibility of the perceived speech, and tone-vocoded stimuli had a perceptual advantage over noise-vocoded stimuli. This work further assessed whether the auditory evoked cortical response could objectively measure the perceptual difference between the two types of vocoded stimuli using an oddball-paradigm based event-related potential (ERP) experiment. A vowel stimulus was processed by noise- and tone-vocoding processes, and the processed stimuli were presented to normal-hearing listeners in an ERP experiment. The noise-vocoded and tone-vocoded vowel stimuli served as the deviant stimuli and the non-vocoded vowel stimulus as the standard stimulus. Experimental results showed that tone-vocoded stimulus evoked a significantly larger mismatch negativity (MMN) amplitude and a significantly shorter MMN peak latency than noise-vocoded stimulus did. Results in this work suggested that compared to noise-vocoded stimulus, tone-vocoded stimulus had a larger perceptual difference relative to the reference stimulus, and this effect caused by the usage of different carrier signals could be reflected by the MMN response.
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Cochlear implants restore hearing in deaf individuals, but speech perception remains challenging. Poor discrimination of spectral components is thought to account for limitations of speech recognition in cochlear implant users. We investigated how combined variations of spectral components along two orthogonal dimensions can maximize neural discrimination between two vowels, as measured by mismatch negativity. Adult cochlear implant users and matched normal-hearing listeners underwent electroencephalographic event-related potentials recordings in an optimum-1 oddball paradigm. A standard /a/ vowel was delivered in an acoustic free field along with stimuli having a deviant fundamental frequency (+3 and +6 semitones), a deviant first formant making it a /i/ vowel or combined deviant fundamental frequency and first formant (+3 and +6 semitones /i/ vowels). Speech recognition was assessed with a word repetition task. An analysis of variance between both amplitude and latency of mismatch negativity elicited by each deviant vowel was performed. The strength of correlations between these parameters of mismatch negativity and speech recognition as well as participants' age was assessed. Amplitude of mismatch negativity was weaker in cochlear implant users but was maximized by variations of vowels' first formant. Latency of mismatch negativity was later in cochlear implant users and was particularly extended by variations of the fundamental frequency. Speech recognition correlated with parameters of mismatch negativity elicited by the specific variation of the first formant. This nonlinear effect of acoustic parameters on neural discrimination of vowels has implications for implant processor programming and aural rehabilitation.
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- François Prévost
- 1 Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,2 International Laboratory for Brain, Music & Sound Research, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- 2 International Laboratory for Brain, Music & Sound Research, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,3 Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,4 Centre for Research on Brain, Language & Music, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Sharp A, Delcenserie A, Champoux F. Auditory Event-Related Potentials Associated With Music Perception in Cochlear Implant Users. Front Neurosci 2018; 12:538. [PMID: 30131673 PMCID: PMC6090478 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2018] [Accepted: 07/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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A short review of the literature on auditory event-related potentials and mismatch negativities (MMN) in cochlear implant users engaged in music-related auditory perception tasks is presented. Behavioral studies that have measured the fundamental aspects of music perception in CI users have found that they usually experience poor perception of melody, pitch, harmony as well as timbre (Limb and Roy, 2014). This is thought to occur not only because of the technological and acoustic limitations of the device, but also because of the biological alterations that usually accompany deafness. In order to improve music perception and appreciation in individuals with cochlear implants, it is essential to better understand how they perceive music. As suggested by recent studies, several different electrophysiological paradigms can be used to reliably and objectively measure normal-hearing individuals' perception of fundamental musical features. These techniques, when used with individuals with cochlear implants, might contribute to determine how their peripheral and central auditory systems analyze musical excerpts. The investigation of these cortical activations can moreover give important information on other aspects related to music appreciation, such as pleasantness and emotional perception. The studies reviewed suggest that cochlear implantation alters most fundamental musical features, including pitch, timbre, melody perception, complex rhythm, and duration (e.g., Koelsch et al., 2004b; Timm et al., 2012, 2014; Zhang et al., 2013a,b; Limb and Roy, 2014). A better understanding of how individuals with cochlear implants perform on these tasks not only makes it possible to compare their performance to that of their normal-hearing peers, but can also lead to better clinical intervention and rehabilitation.
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- Andréanne Sharp
- École d'orthophonie et d'audiologie, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- École d'orthophonie et d'audiologie, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.,Département de psychologie, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- École d'orthophonie et d'audiologie, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Cortical responses to tone and phoneme mismatch as a predictor of dyslexia? A systematic review. Schizophr Res 2018; 191:148-160. [PMID: 28712970 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2017.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2017] [Revised: 06/30/2017] [Accepted: 07/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Evidence from event-related-potential (ERP) studies has repeatedly shown differences in the perception and processing of auditory stimuli in children with dyslexia compared to control children. The mismatch negativity (MMN) - an ERP component reflecting passive auditory change detection ability - has been found to be reduced, not only in children with a diagnosis of dyslexia, but also in infants and preschool children at risk of developing dyslexia. However, the results are controversial due to the different methods, age of the children and stimuli used. The aim of the present review is to summarize and evaluate the MMN research about at-risk children in order to identify risk factors that discriminate between children with and without dyslexia risk and to analyze if the MMR (the abbreviation refers to positive and negative mismatch responses) correlates with later reading and spelling ability. A literature search yielded 17 studies reporting MMR to speech or non-speech stimuli in children at risk of dyslexia. The results of the studies were inconsistent. Studies measuring speech MMR often found attenuated amplitudes in the at-risk group, but mainly in very young children. The results for older children (6-7years) and for non-speech stimuli are more heterogeneous. A moderate positive correlation of MMR amplitude size with later reading and spelling abilities was consistently found. Overall, the findings of this review indicate that the MMR can be a valuable part of early dyslexia identification, which can enable efficient support and intervention for a child before the first problems appear.
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Wagner L, Plontke SK, Rahne T. Perception of Iterated Rippled Noise Periodicity in Cochlear Implant Users. Audiol Neurootol 2017; 22:104-115. [PMID: 28848077 DOI: 10.1159/000478649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2016] [Accepted: 06/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Pitch perception is more challenging for individuals with cochlear implants (CIs) than normal-hearing subjects because the signal processing by CIs is restricted. Processing and perceiving the periodicity of signals may contribute to pitch perception. Whether individuals with CIs can discern pitch within an iterated rippled noise (IRN) signal is still unclear. In a prospective controlled psychoacoustic study with 34 CI users and 15 normal-hearing control subjects, the difference limen between IRN signals with different numbers of iterations was measured. In 7 CI users and 15 normal-hearing control listeners with single-sided deafness, pitch matching between IRN and harmonic complex tones was measured. The pitch onset response (POR) following signal changes from white noise to IRN was measured electrophysiologically. The CI users could discriminate different numbers of iteration in IRN signals, but worse than normal-hearing listeners. A POR was measured for both normal-hearing subjects and CI users increasing with the pitch salience of the IRN. This indicates that the POR could serve as an objective measure to monitor progress during audioverbal therapy after CI surgery.
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- Luise Wagner
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Halle (Saale), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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Adult Cochlear Implant Users Are Able to Discriminate Basic Tonal Features in Musical Patterns: Evidence From Event-related Potentials. Otol Neurotol 2016; 37:e360-8. [PMID: 27631660 DOI: 10.1097/mao.0000000000001067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Measurement of electrophysiological correlates of discrimination abilities of basic musical features in pre- and postlingually deafened adult cochlear implant (CI) users. STUDY DESIGN Electroencephalographic study. Comparison between CI users and matched normal hearing controls. PATIENTS Thirty-six hearing impaired adults using a cochlear implant for 4 to 15 months. Profound hearing impairment was acquired either before (N = 12) or after language acquisition (N = 17). Seven patients suffered from a single-sided deafness. METHODS Presentation of auditory stimuli consisting of musical four tone standard patterns and deviant patterns varying with regard to tone pitch, timbre, intensity, and rhythm of two different degrees. Analysis of electrophysiological, event-related mismatch responses. RESULTS Cochlear implant users elicited significant mismatch responses on most deviant features. Comparison to controls revealed significantly smaller mismatch negativity amplitudes. Except for one parameter (pitch) there were no reliable differences between pre- and postlingually deafened CI users. CONCLUSION Despite a highly reduced complexity of neural auditory stimulation by the cochlear implant device in comparison to the physiological cochlear input, CI users exhibit cortical discriminatory responses to relatively subtle basic tonal alterations.
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Purdy SC, Kelly AS. Change in Speech Perception and Auditory Evoked Potentials over Time after Unilateral Cochlear Implantation in Postlingually Deaf Adults. Semin Hear 2016; 37:62-73. [PMID: 27587923 DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1570329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Speech perception varies widely across cochlear implant (CI) users and typically improves over time after implantation. There is also some evidence for improved auditory evoked potentials (shorter latencies, larger amplitudes) after implantation but few longitudinal studies have examined the relationship between behavioral and evoked potential measures after implantation in postlingually deaf adults. The relationship between speech perception and auditory evoked potentials was investigated in newly implanted cochlear implant users from the day of implant activation to 9 months postimplantation, on five occasions, in 10 adults age 27 to 57 years who had been bilaterally profoundly deaf for 1 to 30 years prior to receiving a unilateral CI24 cochlear implant. Changes over time in middle latency response (MLR), mismatch negativity, and obligatory cortical auditory evoked potentials and word and sentence speech perception scores were examined. Speech perception improved significantly over the 9-month period. MLRs varied and showed no consistent change over time. Three participants aged in their 50s had absent MLRs. The pattern of change in N1 amplitudes over the five visits varied across participants. P2 area increased significantly for 1,000- and 4,000-Hz tones but not for 250 Hz. The greatest change in P2 area occurred after 6 months of implant experience. Although there was a trend for mismatch negativity peak latency to reduce and width to increase after 3 months of implant experience, there was considerable variability and these changes were not significant. Only 60% of participants had a detectable mismatch initially; this increased to 100% at 9 months. The continued change in P2 area over the period evaluated, with a trend for greater change for right hemisphere recordings, is consistent with the pattern of incremental change in speech perception scores over time. MLR, N1, and mismatch negativity changes were inconsistent and hence P2 may be a more robust measure of auditory plasticity in adult implant recipients. P2 was still improving at 9 months postimplantation. Future studies should explore longitudinal changes over a longer period.
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Affiliation(s)
- Suzanne C Purdy
- School of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- School of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Neural Correlates of Phonetic Learning in Postlingually Deafened Cochlear Implant Listeners. Ear Hear 2016; 37:514-28. [DOI: 10.1097/aud.0000000000000287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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