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Acoustic Change Complex Recorded in Hybrid Cochlear Implant Users
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Acoustic Change Complex Recorded in Hybrid Cochlear Implant Users

Eun Kyung Jeon, Bruna S Mussoi, Carolyn J Brown and Paul J Abbas
Audiology & neurotology, Vol.28(3), pp.151-157
06/2023
DOI: 10.1159/000527671
PMCID: PMC10227181
PMID: 36450234
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10227181/pdf/nihms-1854165.pdfView
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Abstract

INTRODUCTION Expanding cochlear implant (CI) candidacy criteria and advances in electrode arrays and soft surgical techniques have increased the number of CI recipients who have residual low-frequency hearing. Objective measures such as obligatory cortical auditory-evoked potentials (CAEPs) may help clinicians make more tailored recommendations to recipients regarding optimal listening mode. As a step toward this goal, this study investigated how CAEPs measured from hybrid CI users differ in two listening modes: acoustic alone (A-alone) versus acoustic plus electric (A + E). METHODS Eight successful hybrid CI users participated in this study. Two CAEPs, the P1-N1-P2 and the acoustic change complex (ACC), were measured simultaneously in response to the onset and change of a series of different and spectrally complex acoustic signals, in each of the two listening modes (A-alone and A + E). We examined the effects of listening mode and stimulus type on the onset and ACC N1-P2 amplitudes and peak latencies. RESULTSACC amplitudes in hybrid CI users significantly differed as a function of listening mode and stimulus type. ACC responses in A + E were larger than those in the A-alone mode. This was most evident for stimuli involving a change from low to high frequency. CONCLUSIONS Results of this study showed that the ACC varies as a function of listening mode and stimulus type. This finding suggests that the ACC can be used as a physiologic, objective measure of the benefit of hybrid CIs, potentially supporting clinicians in making clinical recommendations on individualized listening mode, or to document subjective preference for a given listening mode. Further research into this potential clinical application in a range of hybrid recipients and/or long electrode users who have residual low-frequency hearing is warranted.

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