This needs to be more widely known. You'd think from reading marketing material that you would be listening to Mozart and jazz the week after implantation.
The reality is that you have basically no pitch perception. 16 frequency bands across, say, the four octaves that music is interesting? You're lucky to discriminate half-octaves let alone semitones.
Temporal aspects of music come through alright. I suppose you could be a drummer.
The reality is that you have basically no pitch perception. 16 frequency bands across, say, the four octaves that music is interesting? You're lucky to discriminate half-octaves let alone semitones.
Temporal aspects of music come through alright. I suppose you could be a drummer.