Different Perception of Musical Stimuli in Patients with Monolateral and Bilateral Cochlear Implants

作者:Maglione Anton Giulio*; Vecchiato Giovanni; Leone Carlo Antonio; Grassia Rosa; Mosca Franco; Colosimo Alfredo; Malerba Paolo; Babiloni Fabio
来源:Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, 2014, 2014: 876290.
DOI:10.1155/2014/876290

摘要

The aim of the present study is to measure the perceived pleasantness during the observation of a musical video clip in a group of cochlear implanted adult patients when compared to a group of normal hearing subjects. This comparison was performed by using the imbalance of the EEG power spectra in alpha band over frontal areas as a metric for the perceived pleasantness. Subjects were asked to watch a musical video clip in three different experimental conditions: with the original audio included (Norm), with a distorted version of the audio (Dist), and without the audio (Mute). The frontal EEG imbalance between the estimated power spectra for the left and right prefrontal areas has been calculated to investigate the differences among the two populations. Results suggested that the perceived pleasantness of the musical video clip in the normal hearing population and in the bilateral cochlear implanted populations has similar range of variation across the different stimulations (Norm, Dist, and Mute), when compared to the range of variation of video clip's pleasantness for the monolateral cochlear implanted population. A similarity exists in the trends of the perceived pleasantness across the different experimental conditions in the mono-and bilaterally cochlear implanted patients.

  • 出版日期2014