ArticleCommunications biology2025
Resilience and vulnerability of neural speech tracking after hearing restoration.
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- Infant Cortical Tracking of Speech Shows Emerging Spatial Release from Masking in the First Year of Life.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Infant cortical tracking of speech shows emerging spatial release from masking in the first year of life.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- From Clinic to Reality: Integrating Sound Field Testing and Hearing Quality Measures in Cochlear Implant Users.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Lip-Reading: Advances and Unresolved Questions in a Key Communication Skill.Audiology research · 2025Review
- Evaluating Auditory Localization Capabilities in Young Patients with Single-Side Deafness.Audiology research · 2025Article
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Abstract
The role of early auditory experience in the development of neural speech tracking remains an open question. To address this issue, we measured neural speech tracking in children with or without functional hearing during their first year of life after their hearing was restored with cochlear implants (CIs), as well as in hearing controls (HC). Neural tracking in children with CIs is unaffected by the absence of perinatal auditory experience. CI users and HC exhibit a similar neural tracking magnitude at short timescales of brain activity. However, neural tracking is delayed in CI users, and its timing depends on the age of hearing restoration. Conversely, at longer timescales, speech tracking is dampened in participants using CIs, thereby accounting for their speech comprehension deficits. These findings highlight the resilience of sensory processing in speech tracking while also demonstrating the vulnerability of higher-level processing to the lack of early auditory experience.
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