HLAA Research Symposium 2023: Research Innovations on Music Perception in Cochlear Implant Users

Music perception is difficult for both cochlear implant (CI) and hearing aid (HA) users due to the devices’ technological constraints and music’s acoustic complexity. This presentation focuses on current research innovations to improve music perception for individuals with hearing loss, based on Dr. Karen Barrett’s extensive background at the intersection of science, music and health. She addresses how musical training interventions and novel research innovations, such as processing strategies and individualized pitch maps, improve music perception, then discusses the resources of the Sound Health Network (SHN)—an interagency collaboration to promote public awareness and research about the impact of music on wellness—to stay up-to-date with music perception and hearing loss research. Wendy Cheng rounds out this segment from a musician's perspective, sharing her experience of performing with hearing loss while wearing CIs.

Presenters: Karen Chan Barrett, Ph.D., auditory cognitive neuroscientist & assistant professor, University of California, San Francisco and Wendy Cheng, musician and director of the Association of Adult Musicians with Hearing Loss.

This video from the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA), is edited from a live Research Symposium presented on June 30, 2023 at its annual convention in New Orleans.

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Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute On Deafness And Other Communication Disorders of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R13DC017913. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.