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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Audiol. Otol.
Sec. Clinical Research in Auditory Implants and Hearing Aids
Volume 3 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fauot.2025.1554784
PERCEPTION OF EXTREME MUSICAL DISSONANCE IN COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS USING A NOVEL LISTENING TASK
Provisionally accepted- 1 University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
- 2 Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
MED-EL Corporation provided support for this work in the form of research grants. CJL and MD have also received support from MED-EL Corp. for unrelated work.Open Data and Materials:The data and materials that support the findings of this study are openly available in the Dryad data repository ( www.datadryad.org ) at https://doi.org/10.7272/Q6W957FV (Gilbert et al., 2023).The authors thank all subjects for their participation. Qualtrics support provided by Patpong Jiradejvong. Editorial consultation provided by Breeanna Judy.CJL and MG designed the study, EK generated musical stimuli, MG and EK performed the experiments, MG and MD analyzed the data and generated figures, and all authors contributed to manuscript editing.
Keywords: Cochlear Implants, Music, Pitch Perception, consonance and dissonance perception, Pleasantness impression, Normal hearing (NH)
Received: 02 Jan 2025; Accepted: 17 Feb 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Gilbert, Limb, Kim, Deroche and Lewis. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Melanie L Gilbert, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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