Looi, V.Arnephy, J.2010-03-292010-03-292009Looi, V., Arnephy, J. (2009) Environmental Sound Perception of Cochlear Implant Users. Cochlear Implants International, in press.http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3656The purpose of this study was to develop a new test of environmental sound perception, The Environmental Sounds Perception Test (EST), and to both compare the performance of experienced cochlear implant (CI) recipients to age-equivalent normally hearing (NH) listeners using this new test, as well as pilot test its clinical use as a pre-to-post assessment tool. The closed-set EST consisted of 45 different sounds classified into 9 categories, with each sound being represented by two different tokens. The results showed that the NH participants scored significantly higher than the experienced CI users (p < 0.001). For the Pre-to-post CI group, higher scores were obtained post-surgery with the CI; this difference was approaching significance (p = 0.068). Overall these results suggest that CI recipients are poorer than NH participants, but better than hearing aid users with similar level of hearing loss, on the EST.encochlear implantsenvironmental soundsquality of lifeperceptionperceptual testJournal ArticleFields of Research::320000 Medical and Health Sciences::321000 Clinical Sciences::321018 OtorhinolaryngologyFields of Research::240000 Physical Sciences::240500 Classical Physics::240501 Acoustics and acoustical devices; waveshttps://doi.org/10.1002/cii.428