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ArticleJournal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO2013

Congenital and prolonged adult-onset deafness cause distinct degradations in neural ITD coding with bilateral cochlear implants.

Kenneth E Hancock, Yoojin Chung, Bertrand Delgutte

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Article in Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03866850 (Degenerative Consequences of Congenital Deafness), which is not on this map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT03866850 terminatednot on this mapstarted 2019, after this paper: background citation

Degenerative Consequences of Congenital Deafness

TypeobservationalSponsorEast Carolina UniversityRan2019 to 2023Enrolled34ConditionsCongenital DeafnessArmsPhase duration
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Frequency Following Responses to Electric Cochlear Stimulation in an Animal Model.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2025
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  4. Comparing Bilateral and Single-Sided Deaf Cochlear Implant Recipients in a Novel Speech-in-Noise and Localization Task.Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery · 2025
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  5. Dissociated Representation of Binaural Cues in Single-Sided Deafness: Implications for Cochlear Implantation.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  13. Cochlear Implant Research and Development in the Twenty-first Century: A Critical Update.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2021
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  18. Effect of Chronic Stimulation and Stimulus Level on Temporal Processing by Cochlear Implant Listeners.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2019
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  20. Improved Neural Coding of ITD with Bilateral Cochlear Implants by Introducing Short Inter-pulse Intervals.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kenneth E HancockEaton-Peabody Laboratories, Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA 02114, USA. ken_hancock@meei.harvard.edu
Yoojin Chung
Bertrand Delgutte
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary · USEaton (United States) · US

Funding

Imaging Core PlanP30DC005209 · NIDCD · MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY · PI LIBERMAN, M. CHARLES · 2002 to 2016
$12.0M
Bilateral Cochlear Implants: Physiology and PsychophysicsR01DC005775 · NIDCD · MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY · PI DELGUTTE, BERTRAND · 2003 to 2018
$6.9M
NIDCD NIH HHS P30 DC005209NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC005775
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bilateral cochlear implant (CI) users perform poorly on tasks involving interaural time differences (ITD), which are critical for sound localization and speech reception in noise by normal-hearing listeners. ITD perception with bilateral CI is influenced by age at onset of deafness and duration of deafness. We previously showed that ITD coding in the auditory midbrain is degraded in congenitally deaf white cats (DWC) compared to acutely deafened cats (ADC) with normal auditory development (Hancock et al., J. Neurosci, 30:14068). To determine the relative importance of early onset of deafness and prolonged duration of deafness for abnormal ITD coding in DWC, we recorded from single units in the inferior colliculus of cats deafened as adults 6 months prior to experimentation (long-term deafened cats, LTDC) and compared neural ITD coding between the three deafness models. The incidence of ITD-sensitive neurons was similar in both groups with normal auditory development (LTDC and ADC), but significantly diminished in DWC. In contrast, both groups that experienced prolonged deafness (LTDC and DWC) had broad distributions of best ITDs around the midline, unlike the more focused distributions biased toward contralateral-leading ITDs present in both ADC and normal-hearing animals. The lack of contralateral bias in LTDC and DWC results in reduced sensitivity to changes in ITD within the natural range. The finding that early onset of deafness more severely degrades neural ITD coding than prolonged duration of deafness argues for the importance of fitting deaf children with sound processors that provide reliable ITD cues at an early age.

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Auditory PerceptionAnimalsCatsCochlear ImplantsDeafnessDisease Models, AnimalFemaleHearingInferior ColliculiMaleReaction TimeSound LocalizationTime Factors

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PMID23462803
PMCPMC3642270
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