Gender Categorization in Cochlear Implant Users.
Purpose: In this study, the authors examined the ability of subjects with cochlear implants (CIs) to discriminate voice gender and how this ability evolved as a function of CI experience. Method: The authors presented a continuum of voice samples created by voice morphing, with 9 intermediate acoust...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 56; no. 5; pp. 1389 - 1402 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=91624197&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 91624197 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2013 vid: 56 iid: 5 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 91624197 10.1044/1092-4388(2013/12-0132) ppf: 1389 ppct: 13 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 409KB tig: atl: Gender Categorization in Cochlear Implant Users. aug: au: Massida, Zoé Marx, Mathieu Belin, Pascal James, Christopher Fraysse, Bernard Barone, Pascal Deguine, Olivier affil: Université Toulouse, CerCo, Université Paul Sabatier, France Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CerCo, Toulouse, France Voice Neurocognition Laboratory, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Cochlear France, Toulouse Service Oto-Rhino-Laryngologie et Oto-Neurologie, Hopital Purpan, Toulouse, France su: Analysis of variance Sex distribution Cochlear implants Deafness Experimental design Goodness-of-fit tests Research funding Speech evaluation Physiological aspects of speech Speech perception Statistics T-test (Statistics) Data analysis Sound spectrography Descriptive statistics sug: subj: Analysis of variance Sex distribution Cochlear implants Deafness Experimental design Goodness-of-fit tests Research funding Speech evaluation Physiological aspects of speech Speech perception Statistics T-test (Statistics) Data analysis Sound spectrography Descriptive statistics keyword: cochlear implants deafness gender speech perception voice voice processing cochlear implants deafness gender speech perception voice voice processing ab: Purpose: In this study, the authors examined the ability of subjects with cochlear implants (CIs) to discriminate voice gender and how this ability evolved as a function of CI experience. Method: The authors presented a continuum of voice samples created by voice morphing, with 9 intermediate acoustic parameter steps between a typical male and a typical female. This method allowed for the evaluation of gender categorization not only when acoustical features were specific to gender but also for more ambiguous cases, when fundamental frequency or formant distribution were located between typical values. Results: Results showed a global, though variable, deficit for voice gender categorization in CI recipients compared with subjects with normal hearing. This deficit was stronger for ambiguous stimuli in the voice continuum: Average performance scores for CI users were 58%lower than average scores for subjects with normal hearing in cases of ambiguous stimuli and 19% lower for typical male and female voices. The authors found no significant improvement in voice gender categorization with CI experience. Conclusions: These results emphasize the dissociation between recovery of speech recognition and voice feature perception after cochlear implantation. This large and durable deficit may be related to spectral and temporal degradation induced by CI sound coding, or it may be related to central voice processing deficits. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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