[HTML][HTML] Semantic processing in children with Cochlear Implants: A review of current N400 studies and recommendations for future research

P Kallioinen, JK Olofsson, CN von Mentzer - Biological Psychology, 2023 - Elsevier
Deaf and hard of hearing children with cochlear implants (CI) often display impaired spoken
language skills. While a large number of studies investigated brain responses to sounds in …

Improved speech intelligibility in the presence of congruent vibrotactile speech input

A Schulte, J Marozeau, A Ruhe, A Büchner, A Kral… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Vibrotactile stimulation is believed to enhance auditory speech perception, offering potential
benefits for cochlear implant (CI) users who may utilize compensatory sensory strategies …

Electrophysiological study of visual processing in children with cochlear implants

DP Corina, S Coffey-Corina, E Pierotti, K Mankel… - Neuropsychologia, 2024 - Elsevier
Electrophysiological studies of congenitally deaf children and adults have reported atypical
visual evoked potentials (VEPs) which have been associated with both behavioral …

Prosodic and Visual Cues Facilitate Irony Comprehension by Mandarin-Speaking Children With Cochlear Implants

Q Yu, H Li, S Li, P Tang - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2024 - ASHA
Purpose: This study investigated irony comprehension by Mandarin-speaking children with
cochlear implants, focusing on how prosodic and visual cues contribute to their …

Layer-Specific Enhancement of Visual-Evoked Activity in the Audiovisual Cortex following a Mild Degree of Hearing Loss in Adult Rats

AL Schormans, BL Allman - Hearing Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Following adult-onset hearing impairment, crossmodal plasticity can occur within various
sensory cortices, often characterized by increased neural responses to visual stimulation in …

[HTML][HTML] Audiovisual integration in children with cochlear implants revealed through EEG and fNIRS

R Alemi, J Wolfe, S Neumann, J Manning… - Brain Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sensory deprivation can offset the balance of audio versus visual information in multimodal
processing. Such a phenomenon could persist for children born deaf, even after they receive …

[HTML][HTML] Congenital deafness reduces alpha-gamma cross-frequency coupling in the auditory cortex

PA Yusuf, P Hubka, W Konerding, R Land, J Tillein… - Hearing Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Neurons within a neuronal network can be grouped by bottom-up and top-down influences
using synchrony in neuronal oscillations. This creates the representation of perceptual …

Visual-articulatory cues facilitate children with CIs to better perceive Mandarin tones in sentences

P Tang, S Li, Y Shen, Q Yu, Y Feng - Speech Communication, 2024 - Elsevier
Children with cochlear implants (CIs) face challenges in tonal perception under noise.
Nevertheless, our previous research demonstrated that seeing visual-articulatory cues …

Impact of ASL exposure on spoken phonemic discrimination in adult CI users: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study

S Nematova, B Zinszer, T Morlet, G Morini… - Neurobiology of …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
We examined the impact of exposure to a signed language (American Sign Language, or
ASL) at different ages on the neural systems that support spoken language phonemic …

Resting-state Functional Connectivity Predicts Cochlear-Implant Speech Outcomes

J Esmaelpoor, T Peng, B Jelfs, D Mao, M Shader… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Background: Cochlear implants (CIs) have significantly improved hearing restoration for
individuals with severe or profound hearing loss. Nonetheless, a substantial variability in CI …