Factors behind the ‘cleaning’ of the auditory pathway in late implantation of prelingual oral deaf adults
Abstract
Pre- and peri-lingually deaf adults are benefiting from late cochlear implantation. While much has been written about the emotional experiences, we review auditory plasticity based on 16 months of CI usage by the first author. We suggest that the goal of speech discrimination in quiet via bimodal hearing may accrue from some or all of the following: 1) amplification of low-frequency sounds since infancy, 2) usage of residual hearing via parent-child interaction in auditory training, 3) improved synaptic contact via spike activity from high stimulation rates fused with natural firing from residual hair cells, 4) exposure to singing and music as infants, 5) top-down linguistic processing, 6) reduced cognitive load, 7) episodes of sleep-induced tinnitus-like symptoms after a period of intense auditory exposure, 8) auditory exposure throughout the day, 9) based on inference of imaging scans of 5 oral deaf adults, the distribution of the gray matter cortical thickness of the Heschl’s Gyrus (HG) as well as the spatial topography of the acoustic radiation white matter tract from the thalamus to the HG appear to be maintained, and 10) auditory training for bottom-up phoneme processing and auditory working memory.
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