ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2018
Somatosensory Cross-Modal Reorganization in Adults With Age-Related, Early-Stage Hearing Loss.
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- Somatosensory cross-modal activation and changes in cortical somatosensory evoked potential responses in single-sided deafness: an EEG study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- COCHLEA: Longitudinal Cognitive Performance of Older Adults with Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implants at 4.5-Year Follow-Up.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Abnormal topological structure of structural covariance networks based on fractal dimension in noise induced hearing loss.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Sound-localization-related activation and functional connectivity of dorsal auditory pathway in relation to demographic, cognitive, and behavioral characteristics in age-related hearing loss.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Cholinergic modulation of sensory perception and plasticity.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2023Review
- Somatosensory gating is related to behavioral and verbal outcomes in children with mild-to-severe hearing loss.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Considering hearing loss as a modifiable risk factor for dementia.Expert review of neurotherapeutics · 2022Article
- Neurosensory development of the four brainstem-projecting sensory systems and their integration in the telencephalon.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2022Article
- Changes in cortical auditory evoked potentials in response to auditory training in elderly hearing aid users: A pilot study.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- Hearing impairment and missing cognitive test scores in a population-based study of older adults: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities neurocognitive study.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2021Article
- Altered resting-state functional network connectivity in profound sensorineural hearing loss infants within an early sensitive period: A group ICA study.Human brain mapping · 2021Article
- Altered Functional Network in Infants With Profound Bilateral Congenital Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Graph Theory Analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Dual-Task Performance in Hearing-Impaired Older Adults-Study Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Study.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2021Article
- Screening Tools and Assessment Methods of Cognitive Decline Associated With Age-Related Hearing Loss: A Review.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2021Article
- Cortical Neuroplasticity and Cognitive Function in Early-Stage, Mild-Moderate Hearing Loss: Evidence of Neurocognitive Benefit From Hearing Aid Use.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- Somatosensory Cross-Modal Reorganization in Children With Cochlear Implants.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
- Compensatory Plasticity in the Lateral Extrastriate Visual Cortex Preserves Audiovisual Temporal Processing following Adult-Onset Hearing Loss.Neural plasticity · 2019Article
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Abstract
Under conditions of profound sensory deprivation, the brain has the propensity to reorganize. For example, intact sensory modalities often recruit deficient modalities' cortices for neural processing. This process is known as cross-modal reorganization and has been shown in congenitally and profoundly deaf patients. However, much less is known about cross-modal cortical reorganization in persons with less severe cases of age-related hearing loss (ARHL), even though such cases are far more common. Thus, we investigated cross-modal reorganization between the auditory and somatosensory modalities in older adults with normal hearing (NH) and mild-moderate ARHL in response to vibrotactile stimulation using high density electroencephalography (EEG). Results showed activation of the somatosensory cortices in adults with NH as well as those with hearing loss (HL). However, adults with mild-moderate ARHL also showed robust activation of auditory cortical regions in response to somatosensory stimulation. Neurophysiologic data exhibited significant correlations with speech perception in noise outcomes suggesting that the degree of cross-modal reorganization may be associated with functional performance. Our study presents the first evidence of somatosensory cross-modal reorganization of the auditory cortex in adults with early-stage, mild-moderate ARHL. Our findings suggest that even mild levels of ARHL associated with communication difficulty result in fundamental cortical changes.
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