title: Musician effect in cochlear implant simulated gender categorization.
abstract: Musicians have been shown to better perceive pitch and timbre cues in speech and music, compared to non-musicians. It is unclear whether this "musician advantage" persists under conditions of spectro-temporal degradation, as experienced by cochlear-implant (CI) users. In this study, gender categorization was measured in normal-hearing musicians and non-musicians listening to acoustic CI simulations. Recordings of Dutch words were synthesized to systematically vary fundamental frequency, vocal-tract length, or both to create voices from the female source talker to a synthesized male talker. Results showed an overall musician effect, mainly due to musicians weighting fundamental frequency more than non-musicians in CI simulations.
authors.affiliation: University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Groningen, The Netherlands c.d.fuller@umcg.nl, jgalvin@ucla.edu, r.h.free@umcg.nl, d.baskent@umcg.nl.
authors.forename: Christina D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Fuller
authors.affiliation: University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Groningen, The Netherlands c.d.fuller@umcg.nl, jgalvin@ucla.edu, r.h.free@umcg.nl, d.baskent@umcg.nl.
authors.forename: John J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Galvin
authors.affiliation: University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Groningen, The Netherlands c.d.fuller@umcg.nl, jgalvin@ucla.edu, r.h.free@umcg.nl, d.baskent@umcg.nl.
authors.forename: Rolien H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Free
authors.affiliation: University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Groningen, The Netherlands c.d.fuller@umcg.nl, jgalvin@ucla.edu, r.h.free@umcg.nl, d.baskent@umcg.nl.
authors.forename: Deniz
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Başkent
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D001302:Audiometry, Speech; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009146:Music; D009622:Noise / Q000009:adverse effects; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D010898:Pitch Perception; D012737:Sex Factors; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013067:Speech Perception