Prelingually Deaf Children With Cochlear Implants Show Better Perception of Voice Cues and Speech in Competing Speech Than Postlingually Deaf Adults With Cochlear Implants
Leanne Nagels,
Etienne Gaudrain,
Deborah Vickers
et al.
Abstract:Objectives:
Postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants (CIs) have difficulties with perceiving differences in speakers’ voice characteristics and benefit little from voice differences for the perception of speech in competing speech. However, not much is known yet about the perception and use of voice characteristics in prelingually deaf implanted children with CIs. Unlike CI adults, most CI children became deaf during the acquisition of language. Extensive neuroplastic changes during childho… Show more
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