Despite the remarkable success of cochlear implantation (CI) for speech perception, the ability to perceive music remains extremely limited in most CI users. These limitations can be attributed primarily to fundamental deficits in implant-mediated processing of music that lead to severe impairments in pitch and timbre perception as well as deteriorations in overall sound quality. Furthermore, central auditory processing mechanisms in CI users for music differ than those of normal hearing listeners. This presentation will discuss recent findings regarding perception of music in cochlear implant users from a variety of scientific approaches. In addition, the presentation will consider the important issue of what is needed to improve music perception for CI users.

Speaker Dr. Charles Limb is the Francis A. Sooy, MD Professor and Chief of Otology/Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, and he's a Faculty Member at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. He combines his two passions to study the way the brain creates and perceives music. He's a hearing specialist and surgeon at Johns Hopkins who performs cochlear implantations on patients who have lost their hearing. And he plays sax, piano and bass.

This presentation and Dr. Limb's visit to Rochester, including the presentation on 10/8 at 6pm at the Rochester Academy of Medicine's Sid Sobel Lectureship Series is jointly supported by the SMD Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics and the Eastman Performing Arts Medicine Center. 

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