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Frequency Following Response and Speech Recognition Benefit for Combining a Cochlear Implant and Contralateral Hearing Aid.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Frequency-Following Responses in Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Systematic Review.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2024Pooled it
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- Brainstem encoding of speech in the extended high frequencies and its behavioral correlates.Journal of neurophysiology · 2026Article
- Dominant mid-to-high-frequency harmonics predict neural encoding and perception of concurrent vowels with large f0 differences.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2025Article
- Unilateral Versus Bilateral Cochlear Implants in Adults: A Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study Across Multiple Hearing Domains.Audiology research · 2025Article
- Validating an Evoked Potential Platform for Electrocochleography During Cochlear Implantation.The Laryngoscope · 2025Article
- Objective discrimination of bimodal speech using frequency following responses.Hearing research · 2023Article
- Extending the audiogram with loudness growth: The complementarity of electric and acoustic hearing in bimodal patients.PloS one · 2023Article
- Bilateral Cochlear Implant Processing of Coding Strategies With CCi-MOBILE, an Open-Source Research Platform.IEEE/ACM transactions on audio, speech, and language processing · 2023Article
- Translational Applications of Machine Learning in Auditory Electrophysiology.Seminars in hearing · 2022Review
- Guidelines for Best Practice in the Audiological Management of Adults Using Bimodal Hearing Configurations.Otology & neurotology open · 2022Article
- Objective Detection of the Speech Frequency Following Response (sFFR): A Comparison of Two Methods.Audiology research · 2022Article
- Bimodal Benefits for Lexical Tone Recognition: An Investigation on Mandarin-speaking Preschoolers with a Cochlear Implant and a Contralateral Hearing Aid.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- Musical Emotion Perception in Bimodal Patients: Relative Weighting of Musical Mode and Tempo Cues.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
Multiple studies have shown significant speech recognition benefit when acoustic hearing is combined with a cochlear implant (CI) for a bimodal hearing configuration. However, this benefit varies greatly between individuals. There are few clinical measures correlated with bimodal benefit and those correlations are driven by extreme values prohibiting data-driven, clinical counseling. This study evaluated the relationship between neural representation of fundamental frequency (F0) and temporal fine structure via the frequency following response (FFR) in the nonimplanted ear as well as spectral and temporal resolution of the nonimplanted ear and bimodal benefit for speech recognition in quiet and noise. Participants included 14 unilateral CI users who wore a hearing aid (HA) in the nonimplanted ear. Testing included speech recognition in quiet and in noise with the HA-alone, CI-alone, and in the bimodal condition (i.e., CI + HA), measures of spectral and temporal resolution in the nonimplanted ear, and FFR recording for a 170-ms/da/stimulus in the nonimplanted ear. Even after controlling for four-frequency pure-tone average, there was a significant correlation (r = .83) between FFR F0 amplitude in the nonimplanted ear and bimodal benefit. Other measures of auditory function of the nonimplanted ear were not significantly correlated with bimodal benefit. The FFR holds potential as an objective tool that may allow data-driven counseling regarding expected benefit from the nonimplanted ear. It is possible that this information may eventually be used for clinical decision-making, particularly in difficult-to-test populations such as young children, regarding effectiveness of bimodal hearing versus bilateral CI candidacy.
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