Journal article
Strength of Attentional Modulation on Cortical Auditory Evoked Responses Correlates with Speech-in-Noise Performance in Bimodal Cochlear Implant Users
Trends in hearing, Vol.26
12/04/2022
DOI: 10.1177/23312165221141143
PMCID: PMC9726851
PMID: 36464791
Abstract
Auditory selective attention is a crucial top-down cognitive mechanism for understanding speech in noise. Cochlear implant (CI) users display great variability in speech-in-noise performance that is not easily explained by peripheral auditory profile or demographic factors. Thus, it is imperative to understand if auditory cognitive processes such as selective attention explain such variability. The presented study directly addressed this question by quantifying attentional modulation of cortical auditory responses during an attention task and comparing its individual differences with speech-in-noise performance. In our attention experiment, participants with CI were given a pre-stimulus visual cue that directed their attention to either of two speech streams and were asked to select a deviant syllable in the target stream. The two speech streams consisted of the female voice saying “Up” five times every 800 ms and the male voice saying “Down” four times every 1 s. The onset of each syllable elicited distinct event-related potentials (ERPs). At each syllable onset, the difference in the amplitudes of ERPs between the two attentional conditions (attended - ignored) was computed. This ERP amplitude difference served as a proxy for attentional modulation strength. Our group-level analysis showed that the amplitude of ERPs was greater when the syllable was attended than ignored, exhibiting that attention modulated cortical auditory responses. Moreover, the strength of attentional modulation showed a significant correlation with speech-in-noise performance. These results suggest that the attentional modulation of cortical auditory responses may provide a neural marker for predicting CI users’ success in clinical tests of speech-in-noise listening.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Strength of Attentional Modulation on Cortical Auditory Evoked Responses Correlates with Speech-in-Noise Performance in Bimodal Cochlear Implant Users
- Creators
- Jae-Hee LeeHwan Shim - Rochester Institute of TechnologyBruce GantzInyong Choi
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Trends in hearing, Vol.26
- DOI
- 10.1177/23312165221141143
- PMID
- 36464791
- PMCID
- PMC9726851
- NLM abbreviation
- Trends Hear
- ISSN
- 2331-2165
- eISSN
- 2331-2165
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Grant note
- DC000242 31 / National Institutes of Health (https://doi.org/10.13039/100000002) W81XWH1910637 / U.S. Department of Defense (https://doi.org/10.13039/100000005)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/04/2022
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Neurosurgery; Otolaryngology
- Record Identifier
- 9984321958602771
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