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ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2025

Neural alpha oscillations and auditory steady-state responses during adaptation to a cochlear implant.

Malte Wöstmann, Hannah Marie Meineke, Rainer Schönweiler, Daniela Hollfelder, Karl-Ludwig Bruchhage, Anke Leichtle, Jonas Obleser

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Malte WöstmannDepartment of Psychology, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Lübeck 23562, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8612-8205
Hannah Marie MeinekeDepartment of Psychology, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Lübeck 23562, Germany.
Rainer SchönweilerDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Phoniatrics and Paediatric Audiology, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Lübeck 23562, Germany.
Daniela HollfelderDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Lübeck 23562, Germany.
Karl-Ludwig BruchhageDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Lübeck 23562, Germany.
Anke LeichtleDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Lübeck 23562, Germany.
Jonas ObleserDepartment of Psychology, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Lübeck 23562, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7619-0459

Funding

Cochlear Research & Development Ltd IIR-2052
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Abstract

The human auditory system must distinguish relevant sounds from noise. Severe hearing loss can be treated with cochlear implants (CIs), but how the brain adapts to electrical hearing remains unclear. This study examined adaptation to unilateral CI use in the first and seventh months after CI activation using speech comprehension measures and electroencephalography recordings, both during passive listening and an active spatial listening task. Neural phase-locking to amplitude-modulated sounds interacted with time, such that phase-locking longitudinally increased stronger for 40 Hz compared with 4 Hz. In the spatial listening task, the benefit of performing the task with the CI on vs. off was most pronounced when the CI ear was primarily exposed to target speech. Lateralized alpha oscillations (~10 Hz) reliably marked CI users' focus of spatial attention. Stronger alpha modulation in the hemisphere opposite to the nonimplanted ear indicates an attentional bias toward the acoustically hearing ear. Our findings suggest that adaptation to hearing with a CI is accomplished by dynamic changes in auditory phase locking and a bias in auditory spatial attention.

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Adaptation, PhysiologicalAlpha RhythmAuditory PerceptionCochlear ImplantsSpeech PerceptionAcoustic StimulationAdultAgedAttentionElectroencephalographyFemaleHumansMaleMiddle Agedattentionauditorycochlear implantelectroencephalographytemporal coding

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PMID40928751
PMCPMC12421880

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