Abstract
Interestingly, the international debate about the quality of music fruition for cochlear implanted users does not take into account the hypothesis that bilateral users could perceive music in a more pleasant way with respect to monolateral users. In this scenario, the aim of the present study was to investigate if cerebral signs of pleasantness during music perception in healthy child are similar to those observed in monolateral and in bilateral cochlear implanted users. In fact, previous observations in literature on healthy subjects have indicated that variations of the frontal EEG alpha activity are correlated with the perceived pleasantness of the sensory stimulation received (approach-withdrawal theory). In particular, here we described differences between cortical activities estimated in the alpha frequency band for a healthy child and in patients having a monolateral or a bilateral cochlear implant during the fruition of a musical cartoon. The results of the present analysis showed that the alpha EEG asymmetry patterns observed in a healthy child and that of a bilateral cochlear implanted patient are congruent with the approach-withdrawal theory. Conversely, the scalp topographic distribution of EEG power spectra in the alpha band resulting from the monolateral cochlear user presents a different EEG pattern from the normal and bilateral implanted patients. Such differences could be explained at the light of the approach-withdrawal theory. In fact, the present findings support the hypothesis that a monolateral cochlear implanted user could perceive the music in a less pleasant way when compared to a healthy subject or to a bilateral cochlear user.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS |
| Pages | 4740-4743 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
| Event | 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2012 - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: Aug 28 2012 → Sep 1 2012 |
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| Other | 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2012 |
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| Country | United States |
| City | San Diego, CA |
| Period | 8/28/12 → 9/1/12 |
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- Signal Processing
- Biomedical Engineering
- Health Informatics
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EEG frontal asymmetry related to pleasantness of music perception in healthy children and cochlear implanted users. / Vecchiato, G.; Maglione, A. G.; Scorpecci, A.; Malerba, P.; Marsella, P.; Di Francesco, G.; Vitiello, S.; Colosimo, A.; Babiloni, Fabio.
Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS. 2012. p. 4740-4743 6347026.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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AU - Vecchiato, G.
AU - Maglione, A. G.
AU - Scorpecci, A.
AU - Malerba, P.
AU - Marsella, P.
AU - Di Francesco, G.
AU - Vitiello, S.
AU - Colosimo, A.
AU - Babiloni, Fabio
PY - 2012
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