Contemporary cochlear implants (CIs) use cathodic-leading symmetric biphasic (C-BP) pulses for electrical stimulation. It remains unclear whether asymmetric pulses emphasizing the anodic or cathodic phase may improve spectral and temporal coding with CIs.

Music appreciation through electric hearing in postlingually deafened and implanted cochlear implant (CI) users often faces limitations, given their prior acoustic-hearing experience. Research has shown that this group benefits from music preprocessing strategies such as remixing songs to attenuate instruments with rich harmonic structures (e.