Front Psychol. 2015 Mar 12;6:181. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00181. eCollection 2015.
Judgment of musical emotions after cochlear implantation in adults with progressive deafness.
Frontiers in psychology
Emmanuèle Ambert-Dahan, Anne-Lise Giraud, Olivier Sterkers, Séverine Samson
Affiliations
Affiliations
- Unité Otologie, Implants auditifs et Chirurgie de la base du crâne, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris - Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière Paris, France ; Laboratoire PSITEC (EA 4072), Neuropsychologie: Audition, Cognition et Action, Department of Psychology, Université de Lille 3 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
- Neuroscience Department, Campus Biotech, University of Geneva Geneva, Switzerland.
- Unité Otologie, Implants auditifs et Chirurgie de la base du crâne, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris - Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière Paris, France.
- Laboratoire PSITEC (EA 4072), Neuropsychologie: Audition, Cognition et Action, Department of Psychology, Université de Lille 3 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France ; Unité d'épilepsie, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris - Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière Paris, France.
PMID: 25814961
PMCID: PMC4357245 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00181
Abstract
While cochlear implantation is rather successful in restoring speech comprehension in quiet environments (Nimmons et al., 2008), other auditory tasks, such as music perception, can remain challenging for implant users. Here, we tested how patients who had received a cochlear implant (CI) after post-lingual progressive deafness perceive emotions in music. Thirteen adult CI recipients with good verbal comprehension (dissyllabic words ≥70%) and 13 normal hearing participants matched for age, gender, and education listened to 40 short musical excerpts that selectively expressed fear, happiness, sadness, and peacefulness ( Vieillard et al., 2008). The participants were asked to rate (on a 0-100 scale) how much the musical stimuli expressed these four cardinal emotions, and to judge their emotional valence (unpleasant-pleasant) and arousal (relaxing-stimulating). Although CI users performed above chance level, their emotional judgments (mean correctness scores) were generally impaired for happy, scary, and sad, but not for peaceful excerpts. CI users also demonstrated deficits in perceiving arousal of musical excerpts, whereas rating of valence remained unaffected. The current findings indicate that judgments of emotional categories and dimensions of musical excerpts are not uniformly impaired after cochlear implantation. These results are discussed in relation to the relatively spared abilities of CI users in perceiving temporal (rhythm and metric) as compared to spectral (pitch and timbre) musical dimensions, which might benefit the processing of musical emotions (Cooper et al., 2008).
Keywords: acquired deafness; arousal; cochlear implant; emotion; music; valence
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