This study provides a systematic characterization of Mandarin consonant perception in adult cochlear implant (CI) users and benchmarks the resulting perceptual organization against a condition-matched hearing-aid (HA) dataset and a previously reported normal-hearing (NH) reference....
Findings on Mandarin consonant perception in CI users may guide audiologists working with Mandarin-speaking implant recipients to target specific consonant confusions in auditory rehabilitation, pending review of the full results.
Characterizing speech perception deficits in tonal-language CI users is critical for developing language-specific rehabilitation programs and improving implant fitting strategies for a globally large patient population.
- 01Systematically maps how adult Mandarin-speaking CI users perceive and confuse consonants.
- 02Uses condition-matched listeners (e.g., vocoder simulations) as a benchmark comparator.
- 03Mandarin's tonal structure makes consonant perception especially demanding for CI users.
- 04Results could inform language-specific auditory training programs for CI rehabilitation.
- 05Published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Cochlear implant users show a distinct perceptual organization of Mandarin consonants compared to condition-matched normal-hearing listeners.
studyunclear- PMID
- 42307486
- DOI
- 10.1121/10.0044108.
- Journal
- Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Publication type
- research_article
- Evidence level
- 2b
- Population
- Adult Mandarin-speaking cochlear implant users and condition-matched listeners
- Intervention
- Assessment of Mandarin consonant perception in cochlear implant users
- Comparator
- Condition-matched listeners (normal-hearing with vocoder simulation)
Primary outcomes
Perceptual organization of Mandarin consonants; Consonant recognition accuracy in CI users vs. comparators