Postlingually Deafened Adult Cochlear Implant Users With Prolonged Recovery From Neural Adaptation at the Level of the Auditory Nerve Tend to Have Poorer Speech Perception Performance

Conclusions:

The speed of adaptation recovery plays a more important role than other features of neural adaptation and adaptation recovery of the AN in speech perception in postlingually deafened adult CI users. Patients with prolonged adaptation recovery tend to show poorer speech perception performance.

Source: Ear and Hearing - October 28, 2022 Category: Audiology Tags: Research Article Source Type: research