Reduction of right-hemispheric auditory cortex activity in response to speech in more experienced paediatric cochlear implant users
Björn Kropf,
Madhuri Sharma Rao,
Alexander Gutschalk
et al.
Abstract:In case of severe hearing loss early in life or congenital deafness, cochlear implants (CIs) represent the method of choice to restore hearing and enable language acquisition. While speech intelligibility has been shown to improve during the first year after implantation to then reach a plateau, the underlying neuroplastic changes are poorly understood. Here, we longitudinally compared the cortical processing of speech stimuli in a case-control design with two groups of pre-lingually deafened CI users (4.4 vs.… Show more
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