“…While none of these studies provide evidence for a causal relationship between the cross-modal (visual) recruitment of temporal regions and deficient auditory processing in CI patients, these observations have been interpreted as a maladaptive impact of crossmodal reorganisation (discussed in (Heimler, Weisz, & Collignon, 2014)). Based on these interpretations, our hypothesis is that the TVAs have lost part of their functional integrity in CI patients (Coez et al, 2008), a phenomena that could be responsible to some extent for the deficit of CI patients in processing human voices and their attributes. While the crossmodal reorganization tends to decrease in the auditory temporal regions with the patients recovery of auditory speech comprehension (Chen, Sandmann, Thorne, Bleichner, & Debener, 2016;Doucet, Bergeron, Lassonde, Ferron, & Lepore, 2006;Rouger et al, 2012), we have no cues on how face-voice interactions are affected in CI patients.…”