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Speech intelligibility and prosody production in children with cochlear implants. [PDF]

Journal of Communication Disorders, 2012
Objectives—The purpose of the current study was to examine the relation between speech intelligibility and prosody production in children who use cochlear implants.
S. Chin, T. Bergeson, Jennifer Phan
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Cochlear implants before 9 months of age led to more natural spoken language development without increased surgical risks

Acta paediatrica, 2020
Evidence suggests that cochlear implants are beneficial for language development, but there is no consensus about the ideal age for surgery. We investigated how language development and surgical safety were affected by patients’ ages.
E. Karltorp, Martin Eklöf, Elisabet Östlund, Filip Asp, B. Tideholm, U. Löfkvist   +5 more
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Prefrontal cortex supports speech perception in listeners with cochlear implants

eLife, 2022
Cochlear implants are neuroprosthetic devices that can restore hearing in people with severe to profound hearing loss by electrically stimulating the auditory nerve.
Arefeh Sherafati, Noel Dwyer, Aahana Bajracharya, Mahlega Samira Hassanpour, Adam T Eggebrecht, Jill B Firszt, Joseph P Culver, Jonathan E Peelle   +7 more
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Multichannel optogenetic stimulation of the auditory pathway using microfabricated LED cochlear implants in rodents

Science Translational Medicine, 2020
Optogenetic hearing restoration in rodents by LED-based multichannel optical cochlear implants provides improved spectral selectivity. Honing hearing restoration Cochlear implants provide the brain with auditory information as a treatment for hearing ...
Daniel Keppeler, M. Schwaerzle, T. Harczos, Lukasz Jablonski, A. Dieter, B. Wolf, S. Ayub, C. Vogl, C. Wrobel, G. Hoch, K. Abdellatif, M. Jeschke, V. Rankovic, O. Paul, P. Ruther, T. Moser   +15 more
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Cochlear Implants in Patients with Fluctuant or Progressive Hearing Loss on the Better Ear

International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, 2021
Introduction Cochlear implants have been proposed for cases of unilateral hearing loss, especially in patients with tinnitus impairment. Several studies have shown that they result in definite improvement of sound localization and speech understanding ...
Pedro Luiz Mangabeira-Albernaz, Andrea Felice dos Santos Malerbi   +1 more
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Reading Skills in Preschool and School-aged Children with Unilateral Cochlear Implants in Iran: A Narrative Review [PDF]

Journal of Rehabilitation Sciences and Research, 2022
Background: The acquisition of reading skills is one the most important challenges a cochlear implanted child faces in his/her life. Although cochlearimplants can improve speech, language, and reading skills, some childrencontinue to experience reading ...
Zahra Jeddi, Shaghayegh Omidvar, Afsaneh Doosti, Seyedeh Zahra Fakhr Hosseini   +3 more
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Audiovestibular Disorders after COVID-19 Vaccine: Is There an Association?

Audiology Research, 2022
The SARS-CoV-2 vaccination campaign is probably one of the most historic public hygiene measures in modern medicine. The drama of the pandemic has forced the scientific community to accelerate the development and commercialization of vaccines, thereby ...
Davide Pisani, Federico Maria Gioacchini, Pasquale Viola, Alfonso Scarpa, Alessia Astorina, Massimo Re, Gianmarco Marcianò, Francesco Manti, Roberta Anzivino, Giuseppe Chiarella   +9 more
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The pharmacological treatment of acute vestibular syndrome

Frontiers in Neurology, 2022
Acute vestibular syndrome (AVS) represents a clinical picture that involves urgent management due to the important procession of symptoms accompanying the event, which can be positively or negatively influenced by therapeutic choices and intervention ...
Pasquale Viola, Federico Maria Gioacchini, Alessia Astorina, Davide Pisani, Alfonso Scarpa, Gianmarco Marcianò, Alessandro Casarella, Emanuele Basile, Vincenzo Rania, Massimo Re, Giuseppe Chiarella   +10 more
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Reducing preferred listening levels in headphones through coherent audiotactile stimulation [PDF]

JASA Express Letters
Using headphones may expose the listener to potentially harmful levels of sound. This study examines whether introducing tactile vibrations to the listening experience would encourage them to reduce their headphone volume.
Eirini Liapikou, Jeremy Marozeau
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Prevalence of Contralateral Hearing Aid Use in Adults with Cochlear Implants

International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, 2013
Introduction The exclusive use of a cochlear implant (CI) in one ear allows patients to effectively hear speech in a quiet environment. However, in environments with competing noise, the processing of multiple sounds becomes complex.
Cintia Tizue Yamaguchi, Maria Valéria Schmidt Goffi-Gomez   +1 more
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