Strategic pauses relieve listeners from the effort of listening to fast speech: data limited and resource limited processes in narrative recall by adult users of cochlear …

RM O'Leary, J Neukam, TA Hansen… - Trends in …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Speech that has been artificially accelerated through time compression produces a notable
deficit in recall of the speech content. This is especially so for adults with cochlear implants …

[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 …

Underlying dimensions of real-time word recognition in cochlear implant users

B McMurray, FX Smith, M Huffman, K Rooff… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Word recognition is a gateway to language, linking sound to meaning. Prior work has
characterized its cognitive mechanisms as a form of competition between similar-sounding …

Bottom-up signal quality impacts the role of top-down cognitive-linguistic processing during speech recognition by adults with cochlear implants

AC Moberly, JH Lewis, KJ Vasil, C Ray… - Otology & …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Background: Bottom-up spectro-temporal processing, assessed using a Spectral-Temporally
Modulated Ripple Test (SMRT), is associated with CI speech recognition outcomes …

Listening in noise remains a significant challenge for cochlear implant users: Evidence from early deafened and those with progressive hearing loss compared to …

Y Zaltz, Y Bugannim, D Zechoval… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cochlear implants (CIs) are the state-of-the-art therapy for individuals with severe to
profound hearing loss, providing them with good functional hearing. Nevertheless, speech …

A broadly applicable method for characterizing the slope of the electrically evoked compound action potential amplitude growth function

J Skidmore, D Ramekers, DJ Colesa… - Ear and …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Amplitudes of electrically evoked compound action potentials (eCAPs) as a
function of the stimulation level constitute the eCAP amplitude growth function (AGF). The …

The impact of daily processor use on adult cochlear implant outcomes: Reexamining the roles of duration of deafness and age at implantation

AJ DeFreese, NR Lindquist, L Shi, JT Holder… - Otology & …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
The Impact of Daily Processor Use on Adult Cochlear Implant... : Otology & Neurotology The
Impact of Daily Processor Use on Adult Cochlear Implant Outcomes: Reexamining the Roles …

[HTML][HTML] Intensive training of spatial hearing promotes auditory abilities of bilateral cochlear implant adults: A pilot study

A Coudert, G Verdelet, KT Reilly, E Truy… - Ear and Hearing, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of a virtual reality-based
spatial hearing training protocol in bilateral cochlear implant (CI) users and to provide pilot …

Explaining speech recognition and quality of life outcomes in adult cochlear implant users: complementary contributions of demographic, sensory, and cognitive …

JA Skidmore, KJ Vasil, S He, AC Moberly - Otology & Neurotology, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Background: A better understanding of the contributors to CI outcomes is needed to
prognosticate outcomes before surgery, explain outcomes after surgery, and tailor …

More than words: the relative roles of prosody and semantics in the perception of emotions in spoken language by Postlingual Cochlear Implant Users

R Taitelbaum-Swead, M Icht, BM Ben-David - Ear and Hearing, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: The processing of emotional speech calls for the perception and integration of
semantic and prosodic cues. Although cochlear implants allow for significant auditory …