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Dear Ray and list,
I agree that *relearning/learning* to hear through a CI device is a crucial
component to CI user success. In addition to a large amount of exposure and
practice, the development of mechanisms and materials that can aid a user in
learning *how* to and *what* to listen for seem to be as important as
further advances in the device itself.
With respect to your last
question. > Anybody thought of making music tailored for
CI users? If the low-end users can only distinguish large
> steps, then perhaps we can compose a new scale
that only includes octaves and the associated fifths?
I have indeed thought about this, I thought about
scales that would be composed of center frequencies from each of the bandpass
channels for a person's strategy. This might be a starting place for a "musical
rehabilitation" - as a person masters pitch discriminations in his or her own
scale, more discrete pitch distances can be introduced. Or, alternatively, an
external mechanism could use an algorithm to customize music to that person's
specific scale
(My
apologies Dr. McDermott, I should have promoted your paper for
you...)
William Cooper
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