Attention to Speech and Music in Young Children with Bilateral Cochlear Implants: A Pupillometry Study.

ABSTRACT: Early bilateral cochlear implants (CIs) may enhance attention to speech, and reduce cognitive load in noisy environments. However, it is sometimes difficult to measure speech perception and listening effort, especially in very young children. Behavioral measures cannot always be obtained in young/uncooperative children, whereas objective measures are either difficult to assess or do not reliably correlate with behavioral measures. Recent studies have thus explored pupillometry as a possible objective measure. Here, pupillometry is introduced to assess attention to speech and music in noise in very young children with bilateral CIs (N = 14, age: 17-47 months), and in the age-matched group of normally-hearing (NH) children (N = 14, age: 22-48 months). The results show that the response to sp

SUBMITTER: Saksida A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8956090 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature