ReviewFrontiers in systems neuroscience2013
Developmental plasticity of spatial hearing following asymmetric hearing loss: context-dependent cue integration and its clinical implications.
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- Learning spatial hearing via innate mechanisms.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Individual variability in the nuclei of the human superior olivary complex.Brain structure & function · 2025Article
- Sound-seeking before and after hearing loss in mice.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- 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 · 2024Article
- Sound-seeking before and after hearing loss in mice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Experience-Dependent Plasticity in Nucleus Laminaris of the Barn Owl.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Auditory Spatial Discrimination and Sound Localization in Single-Sided Deaf Participants Provided with a Cochlear Implant.Audiology & neuro-otology · 2024Article
- Adaptation in auditory processing.Physiological reviews · 2023Review
- Audiovisual Training in Virtual Reality Improves Auditory Spatial Adaptation in Unilateral Hearing Loss Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Auditory cortical plasticity after cochlear implantation in asymmetric hearing loss is related to spatial hearing: a PET H215O study.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Persistence and generalization of adaptive changes in auditory localization behavior following unilateral conductive hearing loss.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Towards a Consensus on an ICF-Based Classification System for Horizontal Sound-Source Localization.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
- Adapting to altered auditory cues: Generalization from manual reaching to head pointing.PloS one · 2022Article
- Dichotic listening deficits in amblyaudia are characterized by aberrant neural oscillations in auditory cortex.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2021Article
- Sound Localization in Single-Sided Deaf Participants Provided With a Cochlear Implant.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Sound-localisation performance in patients with congenital unilateral microtia and atresia fitted with an active middle ear implant.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2021Article
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Abstract
Under normal hearing conditions, comparisons of the sounds reaching each ear are critical for accurate sound localization. Asymmetric hearing loss should therefore degrade spatial hearing and has become an important experimental tool for probing the plasticity of the auditory system, both during development and adulthood. In clinical populations, hearing loss affecting one ear more than the other is commonly associated with otitis media with effusion, a disorder experienced by approximately 80% of children before the age of two. Asymmetric hearing may also arise in other clinical situations, such as after unilateral cochlear implantation. Here, we consider the role played by spatial cue integration in sound localization under normal acoustical conditions. We then review evidence for adaptive changes in spatial hearing following a developmental hearing loss in one ear, and show that adaptation may be achieved either by learning a new relationship between the altered cues and directions in space or by changing the way different cues are integrated in the brain. We next consider developmental plasticity as a source of vulnerability, describing maladaptive effects of asymmetric hearing loss that persist even when normal hearing is provided. We also examine the extent to which the consequences of asymmetric hearing loss depend upon its timing and duration. Although much of the experimental literature has focused on the effects of a stable unilateral hearing loss, some of the most common hearing impairments experienced by children tend to fluctuate over time. We therefore propose that there is a need to bridge this gap by investigating the effects of recurring hearing loss during development, and outline recent steps in this direction. We conclude by arguing that this work points toward a more nuanced view of developmental plasticity, in which plasticity may be selectively expressed in response to specific sensory contexts, and consider the clinical implications of this.
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