ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2025
After cochlear implantation in older adults, enhanced working memory does not fully mediate the relationship between CI and improved semantic fluency.
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- Verbal fluency after cochlear implantation: a longitudinal comparison with untreated hearing loss in the ELSA cohort.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
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Aim: Studies indicate that semantic fluency improved after cochlear implantation (CI) in older adults, but not in young and middle-aged adults. We were interested in identifying cognitive variables that are associated with this improvement. We tested whether improvements in cognition after cochlear implantation are associated with improvements in semantic fluency in older adults. Methods: We used data from a multicenter cohort study. All dementia-free CI patients had symmetrical hearing loss that started in adulthood. The younger group ( Results: Semantic fluency and working memory improved significantly in the older group. No significant improvement was found in the younger group. The improvement in semantic fluency in the older group correlated significantly with the improvement in working memory. Mediation analyses suggest a partial overlap between improvements in semantic fluency and working memory. The improvement in working memory accounted for 28% of the enhancement in semantic fluency. Conclusion: In older adults with hearing loss, enhanced working memory after CI did not fully mediate the relationship between CI and semantic fluency. Additional variables that also improved after CI may influence semantic fluency.
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