Cochlear Implant Compression Optimization for Musical Sound Quality in MED-EL Users.
Objectives: Variations in loudness are a fundamental component of the music listening experience. Cochlear implant (CI) processing, including amplitude compression, and a degraded auditory system may further degrade these loudness cues and decrease the enjoyment of music listening. This study aimed...
| Publicado en: | Ear & Hearing (01960202) Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 862 - 874 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
May/Jun2022
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=156372609&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 156372609 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 01960202 IM7 jtl: Ear & Hearing (01960202) issn: 01960202 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: May/Jun2022 vid: 43 iid: 3 pid: 433 pub: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins place: Baltimore, Maryland artinfo: ui: 156372609 156372609 NLM34812791 156372609 10.1097/AUD.0000000000001145 NLM34812791 156372609 ppf: 862 ppct: 12 formats: tig: atl: Cochlear Implant Compression Optimization for Musical Sound Quality in MED-EL Users. aug: au: Gilbert, Melanie L. Deroche, Mickael L. D. Jiradejvong, Patpong Chan Barrett, Karen Limb, Charles J. sug: subj: Cochlear Implant Deafness Music Adult Auditory Perception Sound Human Adult: 19-44 years ab: Objectives: Variations in loudness are a fundamental component of the music listening experience. Cochlear implant (CI) processing, including amplitude compression, and a degraded auditory system may further degrade these loudness cues and decrease the enjoyment of music listening. This study aimed to identify optimal CI sound processor compression settings to improve music sound quality for CI users.Design: Fourteen adult MED-EL CI recipients participated (Experiment No. 1: n = 17 ears; Experiment No. 2: n = 11 ears) in the study. A software application using a modified comparison category rating (CCR) test method allowed participants to compare and rate the sound quality of various CI compression settings while listening to 25 real-world music clips. The two compression settings studied were (1) Maplaw, which informs audibility and compression of soft level sounds, and (2) automatic gain control (AGC), which applies compression to loud sounds. For each experiment, one compression setting (Maplaw or AGC) was held at the default, while the other was varied according to the values available in the clinical CI programming software. Experiment No. 1 compared Maplaw settings of 500, 1000 (default), and 2000. Experiment No. 2 compared AGC settings of 2.5:1, 3:1 (default), and 3.5:1.Results: In Experiment No. 1, the group preferred a higher Maplaw setting of 2000 over the default Maplaw setting of 1000 (p = 0.003) for music listening. There was no significant difference in music sound quality between the Maplaw setting of 500 and the default setting (p = 0.278). In Experiment No. 2, a main effect of AGC setting was found; however, no significant difference in sound quality ratings for pairwise comparisons were found between the experimental settings and the default setting (2.5:1 versus 3:1 at p = 0.546; 3.5:1 versus 3:1 at p = 0.059).Conclusions: CI users reported improvements in music sound quality with higher than default Maplaw or AGC settings. Thus, participants preferred slightly higher compression for music listening, with results having clinical implications for improving music perception in CI users. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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