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. (C) 2014 Acoustical Society of America
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | EL159-EL165 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Journal of the Acoustical Society of America |
Volume | 135 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar-2014 |
Keywords
- SPEECH
- IDENTIFICATION
- PERCEPTION
- LISTENERS
- LANGUAGE
- HEARING
- USERS