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ArticleScientific reports2020

Electrophysiological assessment of temporal envelope processing in cochlear implant users.

Robin Gransier, Robert P Carlyon, Jan Wouters

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. 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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  7. Electrophysiological and Psychophysical Measures of Temporal Pitch Sensitivity in Normal-hearing Listeners.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Robin GransierDepartment of Neurosciences, KU Leuven, ExpORL, Herestraat 49, Box 721, 3000, Leuven, Belgium. robin.gransier@kuleuven.be.
Robert P CarlyonCambridge Hearing Group, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, CB2 7EF, UK.
Jan WoutersDepartment of Neurosciences, KU Leuven, ExpORL, Herestraat 49, Box 721, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
KU Leuven · BEUniversity of Cambridge · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust 209243/Z/17/ZWellcome Trust RG91976
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cochlear-implant (CI) users rely on temporal envelope modulations (TEMs) to understand speech, and clinical outcomes depend on the accuracy with which these TEMs are encoded by the electrically-stimulated neural ensembles. Non-invasive EEG measures of this encoding could help clinicians identify and disable electrodes that evoke poor neural responses so as to improve CI outcomes. However, recording EEG during CI stimulation reveals huge stimulation artifacts that are up to orders of magnitude larger than the neural response. Here we used a custom-built EEG system having an exceptionally high sample rate to accurately measure the artefact, which we then removed using linear interpolation so as to reveal the neural response during continuous electrical stimulation. In ten adult CI users, we measured the 40-Hz electrically evoked auditory steady-state response (eASSR) and electrically evoked auditory change complex (eACC) to amplitude-modulated 900-pulses-per-second pulse trains, stimulated in monopolar mode (i.e. the clinical default), and at different modulation depths. We successfully measured artifact-free 40-Hz eASSRs and eACCs. Moreover, we found that the 40-Hz eASSR, in contrast to the eACC, showed substantial responses even at shallow modulation depths. We argue that the 40-Hz eASSR is a clinically feasible objective measure to assess TEM encoding in CI users.

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ArtifactsAuditory ThresholdCochlear ImplantationCochlear ImplantsDeafnessElectric StimulationElectroencephalographyEvoked Potentials, AuditoryFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPersons with Hearing DisabilitiesTime Perception

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PMID32958791
PMCPMC7506023
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