The acceptance of cochlear implantation as an effective and safe treatment for deafness has
increased steadily over the past quarter century. The earliest devices were the first …

More than 60,000 people worldwide use cochlear implants as a means to restore functional
hearing. Although individual performance variability is still high, an average implant user …

With the advent of modern cognitive neuroscience and new tools of studying the human
brain" live," music as a highly complex, temporally ordered and rule-based sensory …

Objective The first specific aim of the present study is to compare the ability of normal-
hearing and cochlear implant listeners to use temporal cues in three music perception tasks …

This article describes issues concerning music perception with cochlear implants, discusses
why music perception is usually poor in cochlear implant users, reviews relevant data, and …

There are now many recipients of unilateral cochlear implants who have usable residual
hearing in the non-implanted ear. To avoid auditory deprivation and to provide binaural …

This paper describes the listening habits and musical enjoyment of postlingually deafened
adults who use cochlear implants. Sixty-five implant recipients (35 females, 30 males) …

Objective: While the cochlear implant provides many deaf patients with good speech
understanding in quiet, music perception and appreciation with the cochlear implant …

Objective: The purposes of this study were to (a) examine the accuracy of cochlear implant
recipients who use different types of devices and signal processing strategies on pitch …

The principles of the most recent cochlear implant processors are similar to that of the
channel vocoder, originally used for transmitting speech over telephone lines with much less …