ArticleThe European journal of neuroscience2021
Neural correlates of visual stimulus encoding and verbal working memory differ between cochlear implant users and normal-hearing controls.
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- Orienting attention to auditory and visual working memory in older adults with cochlear implants.PloS one · 2024Article
- Crossmodal plasticity in hearing loss.Trends in neurosciences · 2023Review
- Dynamic networks differentiate the language ability of children with cochlear implants.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Evidence of visual crossmodal reorganization positively relates to speech outcomes in cochlear implant users.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Neural correlates of visual stimulus encoding and verbal working memory differ between cochlear implant users and normal-hearing controls.The European journal of neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
A common concern for individuals with severe-to-profound hearing loss fitted with cochlear implants (CIs) is difficulty following conversations in noisy environments. Recent work has suggested that these difficulties are related to individual differences in brain function, including verbal working memory and the degree of cross-modal reorganization of auditory areas for visual processing. However, the neural basis for these relationships is not fully understood. Here, we investigated neural correlates of visual verbal working memory and sensory plasticity in 14 CI users and age-matched normal-hearing (NH) controls. While we recorded the high-density electroencephalogram (EEG), participants completed a modified Sternberg visual working memory task where sets of letters and numbers were presented visually and then recalled at a later time. Results suggested that CI users had comparable behavioural working memory performance compared with NH. However, CI users had more pronounced neural activity during visual stimulus encoding, including stronger visual-evoked activity in auditory and visual cortices, larger modulations of neural oscillations and increased frontotemporal connectivity. In contrast, during memory retention of the characters, CI users had descriptively weaker neural oscillations and significantly lower frontotemporal connectivity. We interpret the differences in neural correlates of visual stimulus processing in CI users through the lens of cross-modal and intramodal plasticity.
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