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The effect of music on auditory perception
in cochlear-implant users and
normal-hearing listeners
Christina Diechina Fuller
The financial support for printing this thesis is gratefully acknowledged.
Meda Pharma B.V.
Advanced Bionics
Tramedico
Professor dr. Eelco-Huizinga Stichting
Oticon Medical
MED-EL
BCN - Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences
Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
ISBN: 978-90-367-9131-1 (book)
© 2016, C.D.Fuller
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The effect of music on auditory perception
in cochlear-implant users and
normal-hearing listeners
Proefschrift
ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
op gezag van de
rector magnificus prof. dr. E. Sterken
en volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties.
De openbare verdediging zal plaatsvinden op
woensdag 26 oktober 2016 om 16.15 uur
door
Christina Diechina Fuller
geboren op 2 juni 1985
te Borger
Promotores
Prof. dr. D. Başkent
Prof. dr. B.F.A.M. van der Laan
Copromotor
Dr. R.H. Free
Beoordelingscommissie
Prof. dr. A. Faulkner
Prof. dr. ir. J.H.M. Frijns
Prof. dr. ir. N.M. Maurits
Paranimfen
Ellen ten Dam
Loes Meijerink
Waar woorden tekort schieten, spreekt de muziek
H.C. Andersen
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction to the thesis
Part one: Assessment of the perception of music and pitch-mediated speech stimuli in cochlear-implant users
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23
Chapter 2 Music and quality of life in early-deafened late-implanted adult cochlear-implant users
25
Chapter 3 Self-reported music perception is related to quality of life and self-
reported hearing abilities in cochlear-implant users
43
Chapter 4 Gender categorization is abnormal in cochlear-implant users
61
Chapter 5 Normal-hearing listeners’ and cochlear-implant users’ perception of pitch cues in emotional speech
83
Part two: Musician effect in normal hearing listeners and cochlear-
implant users
105
Chapter 6 Musical background not associated with self-perceived hearing 107
performance or speech perception in post-lingual cochlear-implant users
Chapter 7 Musician effect in cochlear implant simulated gender categorization
125
Chapter 8 The musician effect: does it persist in spectrally degraded cochlear implant simulations?
135
Part three: The effect of music therapy and training in cochlear-
implant users
167
Chapter 9 The effect of musical training and music therapy on speech and music perception in cochlear-implant users
169
Chapter 10 General discussion and conclusion
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Summary & Samenvatting
Dankwoord
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Curriculum Vitae