Neural correlates of speech processing in prelingually deafened children and adolescents with cochlear implants.

ABSTRACT: Prelingually deafened children with cochlear implants stand a good chance of developing satisfactory speech performance. Nevertheless, their eventual language performance is highly variable and not fully explainable by the duration of deafness and hearing experience. In this study, two groups of cochlear implant users (CI groups) with very good basic hearing abilities but non-overlapping speech performance (very good or very bad speech performance) were matched according to hearing age and age at implantation. We assessed whether these CI groups differed with regard to their phoneme discrimination ability and auditory sensory memory capacity, as suggested by earlier studies. These functions were measured behaviorally and with the Mismatch Negativity (MMN). Phoneme discrimination ability wa

SUBMITTER: Ortmann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3701579 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature