Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0562532

Funded Activity Summary

Optimal Training Methods for Lexical Tone Perception by Children with Cochlear Implants: Application of Experimental Psychology Techniques. Cochlear implants (CIs) stimulate the auditory nerve via electrodes in the cochlear to provide auditory information to people who would otherwise be functionally deaf. Cochlear site stimulation is at a constant rate so, despite the genius of the CI, it cannot convey pitch information effectively. Such information is essential for perceiving and speaking tone languages, in which word meaning depends on consonants, vowels, and tones (conveyed mainly by pitch). A training method to improve tone perception will be developed with non-tone language non-CI through to tone language CI children drawing on experimental psychology methods, auditory and visual (lip & face) speech information, exaggerated tone cues, and metalinguistic instruction.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-12-2005

End Date: 13-08-2009

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $72,444.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Psychology | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Sensory Processes, Perception And Performance | Linguistic Processes (Incl. Speech Production And Comprehension)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders |

Other Keywords

Communication Across Languages and Cultures | Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Linguistic Processes (Incl. Speech Production And Comprehension) | Psychology | Sensory Processes, Perception And Performance

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