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2025
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- Getting the Feeling? The Salience of Music Emotion with a Cochlear Implant David R. Friedmann Emily Spitzer Joshua Horton Daniel Jethanamest David Landsberger The Laryngoscope ObjectiveMusic, like all forms of art, seeks to communicate emotional content to its audience. The signal provided by cochlear implants (CI) does not faithfully represent the psychophysical relationships inherent in music; however, it is unknown whether targeted musical emotions are conveyed through electric only stimulation with a cochlear implant.MethodsTwenty musical excerpts for which there was concordance among normal hearing (NH) listeners as to the emotion conveyed: (1) happy, (2) sad, (3) scary, or (4) peaceful were presented to cochlear implant (CI) subjects (n = 20) and age‐matched NH controls (n = 8) through a specifically designed iPad application. The musical clips were original recordings of western music from various musical genres but not widely familiar to participants. Subjects also completed a music background questionnaire.ResultsCI users identified the target emotion in only 57% of excerpts compared with NH listeners who correctly identified the target emotion in 76.9% of excerpts. Musical excerpts with the target emotion of happy were recognized in 84% of cases by CI users compared with 75% among NH controls while the remaining target emotions were much more difficult for CI users compared with NH raters. Length of CI experience, speech perception scores, and musical training or listening habits did not correlate with performance on this task.ConclusionsCurrent CI technology and processing strategies do not convey the range of emotions conveyed in music as recognized by normal hearing subjects. This difficulty may explain the reported lack of interest many patients have in music after CI despite a passion for music before onset of hearing loss.Level of Evidence3 Laryngoscope, 135:2112–2119, 2025 10.1002/lary.32045 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor