Auditory steady state responses in cochlear implants

Forfattere

  • Jan Wouters ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
  • Michael Hofmann ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences, K.U.Leuven, Belgium

Resumé

Electrically Auditory Steady State Responses (EASSRs) are EEG potentials in response to periodic electrical stimuli presented through a cochlear implant (CI). Recently, for slow rate pulse trains in the 40Hz range, the electrophysiological thresholds derived from response amplitude growth functions have been demonstrated to correlate well with behavioral thresholds at these rates. In the following studies we show that auditory steady state potentials can as well be reliably evoked by amplitude- modulated or pulse-width-modulated high-rate pulse trains at clinically used carrier rates, and that stimulus artifacts can be completely removed from the electrophysiological recordings. Multichannel EEG-data have been recorded in Nucleus cochlear implant users. The properties of the resulting responses with regards to amplitude, phase and apparent latency are analyzed. The predictive value of electrophysiological thresholds derived from such responses for behavioral thresholds at these high rates is examined. This objective threshold determination method may be used in future CI fitting paradigms.

Referencer

Alaerts, J., Luts, H., Van Dun, B., Desloovere, C., and Wouters, J. (2010). “Latencies of auditory steady state responses recorded in early infancy” Audiology and Neuro-Otology, 15 (2), 116-127

Galambos, R., Makeig, S., and Talmachoff, P. J. (1981). “A 40-Hz auditory potential recorded from the human scalp” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 78 (4), 2643-7

Hofmann, M., and Wouters, J. (2010). “Electrically evoked auditory steady state responses in cochlear implant users” Journal of the Association of Research in Otolaryngology, 11 (2), 267-282

Hofmann, M., and Wouters, J. (2011). “Improved detection of auditory steady state responses with electrical stimuli in cochlear implant users” Submitted

Jeng, F.-C., Abbas, P. J., Brown, C. J., Miller, C. A., Nourski, K. V., and Robinson, B. K. (2007) “Electrically evoked auditory steady-state responses in guinea pigs” Audiology and Neuro-Otology, 12 (2), 101-12

Jeng, F.-C., Abbas, P. J., Brown, C. J., Miller, C. A., Nourski, K. V., and Robinson, B. K. (2008) “Electrically evoked auditory steady-state responses in a guinea pig model” Audiology and Neuro-Otology, 13 (3), 161-71

Luts, H., Desloovere, C., and Wouters, J. (2006). “Clinical application of dichotic multiple-stimulus auditory stead-state responses in high-risk newborns and young children” Audiology and Neuro-Otology, 11, 1, 24-37

McKay, C. M., Fewster, L., and Dawson, P. (2005), “A different approach to using neural response telemetry for automated cochlear implant processor programming” Ear and Hearing, 26 (4 Suppl), 38S-44S

Ménard, M., Gallégo, S., Truy, E., Berger-Vachon, C., Durrant, J. D., and Collet, L. (2004), “Auditory steady-state response evaluation of auditory thresholds in cochlear implant patients” International Journal of Audiology 43, 39-43

Miller, C. A., Brown, C. J., Abbas, P. J., and Chi, S. L. (2008), “The clinical application of potentials evoked from the peripheral auditory system” Hearing Research 242 (1-2), 184-97

Picton, T. W., John, M. S., Dimitrijevic, A., and Purcell, D. W. (2003). “Human auditory steady state responses” International Journal of Audiology 42 (2), 177- 219

Picton, T.W. (2011). Human auditory evoked potentials, Plural Publishing, San Diego

Poelmans, H., Luts, H., Vandermosten, M., Boets, B., Ghesquière, P., and Wouters, J. ( 2011). “Auditory steady-state cortical responses indicate deviant phonemic- rate processing in adults with dyslexia” Ear and Hearing, in press

Yderligere filer

Publiceret

2011-12-15

Citation/Eksport

Wouters, J., & Hofmann, M. (2011). Auditory steady state responses in cochlear implants. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research, 3, 243–250. Hentet fra https://proceedings.isaar.eu/index.php/isaarproc/article/view/2011-29

Nummer

Sektion

2011/2. Neural representation of complex sounds and speech in the auditory brain