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Sensory Systems | Central Nervous System | Otorhinolaryngology | Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance | Psychology | Neurosciences
Hearing, Vision, Speech and Their Disorders | Nervous System and Disorders | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences |
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 07-2012
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-07-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-03-2013
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 14-09-2016
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 02-2022
Publisher: Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Date: 05-2021
DOI: 10.1121/10.0004788
Abstract: For abruptly gated sound, interaural time difference (ITD) cues at onset carry greater perceptual weight than those following. This research explored how envelope shape influences such carrier ITD weighting. Experiment 1 assessed the perceived lateralization of a tonal binaural beat that transitioned through ITD (diotic envelope, mean carrier frequency of 500 Hz). Listeners' left/right lateralization judgments were compared to those for static-ITD tones. For an 8 Hz sinusoidally litude-modulated envelope, ITD cues 24 ms after onset well-predicted reported sidedness. For an equivalent-duration “abrupt” envelope, which was unmodulated besides 20-ms onset/offset r s, reported sidedness corresponded to ITDs near onset (e.g., 6 ms). However, unlike for sinusoidal litude modulation, ITDs toward offset seemingly also influenced perceived sidedness. Experiment 2 adjusted the duration of the offset r (25–75 ms) and found evidence for such offset weighting only for the most abrupt r tested. In experiment 3, an ITD was imposed on a brief segment of otherwise diotic filtered noise. Listeners discriminated right- from left-leading ITDs. In sinusoidal litude modulation, thresholds were lowest when the ITD segment occurred during rising litude. For the abrupt envelope, the lowest thresholds were observed when the segment occurred at either onset or offset. These experiments demonstrate the influence of envelope profile on carrier ITD sensitivity.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-12-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2010
DOI: 10.1016/J.HEARES.2010.06.017
Abstract: Three experiments studied the effect of stimulus polarity on the Electrically Evoked Compound Action Potential (ECAP) obtained with the masker-probe paradigm on different sites along the cochlea in cochlear implant users. Experiment 1 used a biphasic cathodic-1st (BIC) masker and showed that ECAP N(1) peak latencies were longer for BIC than for biphasic anodic-1st (BIA) probes on all electrodes under test. Both the latency of each probe as well as the latency difference between BIA and BIC probes increased when the phase width (PW) of the masker and probe were increased together. Experiment 2 used maskers with long inter-phase gaps (IPGs), and, by manipulating the polarity of the second phase (closest in time to the biphasic probe), showed that only an anodic phase could mask the probe response. Experiment 3 used maskers and probes with long IPGs and measured ECAPs to the first phase of the probe ECAPs could be measured when both this phase and the second phase of the masker were anodic, but not when they were cathodic. Our results extend those of a previous study, showing that the auditory nerve in humans is preferentially activated by anodic stimulation, to different sites along the cochlea.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
DOI: 10.1016/J.HEARES.2017.07.008
Abstract: The spatial auditory change complex (ACC) is a cortical response elicited by a change in place of stimulation. There is growing evidence that it provides a useful objective measure of electrode discrimination in cochlear implant (CI) users. To date, the spatial ACC has only been measured in relatively experienced CI users with one type of device. Early assessment of electrode discrimination could allow auditory stimulation to be optimized during a potentially sensitive period of auditory rehabilitation. In this study we used a direct stimulation paradigm to measure the spatial ACC in both pre- and post-lingually deafened adults. We show that it is feasible to measure the spatial ACC in different CI devices and as early as 1 week after CI switch-on. The spatial ACC has a strong relationship with performance on a behavioural discrimination task and in some cases provides information over and above behavioural testing. We suggest that it may be useful to measure the spatial ACC to guide auditory rehabilitation and improve hearing performance in CI users.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2012
DOI: 10.1016/J.HEARES.2012.05.003
Abstract: In cochlear implants (CI) bipolar (BP) electrical stimulation has been suggested as a method to reduce the spread of current along the cochlea. However, behavioral measurements in BP mode have shown either similar or worse performance than in monopolar (MP) mode. This could be explained by a bimodal excitation pattern, with two main excitation peaks at the sites of the stimulating electrodes. We measured the spread of excitation (SOE) by means of the electrically evoked compound action potential (ECAP), obtained using the forward-masked paradigm. The aim was to measure the bimodality of the excitation and to determine whether it could be reduced by using asymmetric pulses. Three types of maskers shapes were used: symmetric (SYM), pseudomonophasic (PS), and symmetric with a long inter-phase gap (SYM-IPG) pulses. Maskers were presented in BP + 9 (wide), BP + 3 (narrow) and MP (only SYM) mode on fixed electrodes. The SOE obtained with the MP masker showed a main excitation peak close to the masker electrode. Wide SYM maskers produced bimodal excitation patterns showing two peaks close to the electrodes of the masker channel, whereas SYM-IPG maskers showed a single main peak near the electrode for which the masker's second phase (responsible for most of the masking) was anodic. Narrow SYM maskers showed complex and wider excitation patterns than asymmetric stimuli consistent with the overlap of the patterns produced by each channel's electrodes. The masking produced by narrow SYM-IPG and PS stimuli was more pronounced close to the masker electrode for which the effective phase was anodic. These results showed that the anodic polarity is the most effective one in BP mode and that the bimodal patterns produced by SYM maskers could be partially reduced by using asymmetric pulses.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2022
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 03-08-2022
DOI: 10.3389/FNEUR.2022.928158
Abstract: Objective assessment of auditory discrimination has often been measured using the Auditory Change Complex (ACC), which is a cortically generated potential elicited by a change occurring within an ongoing, long-duration auditory stimulus. In cochlear implant users, the electrically-evoked ACC has been used to measure electrode discrimination by changing the stimulating electrode during stimulus presentation. In addition to this cortical component, subcortical measures provide further information about early auditory processing in both normal hearing listeners and cochlear implant users. In particular, the frequency-following response (FFR) is thought to reflect the auditory encoding at the level of the brainstem. Interestingly, recent research suggests that it is possible to simultaneously measure both subcortical and cortical physiological activity. The aim of this research was twofold: first, to understand the scope for simultaneously recording both the FFR (subcortical) and ACC (cortical) responses in normal hearing adults. Second, to determine the best recording parameters for optimizing the simultaneous capture of both responses with clinical applications in mind. Electrophysiological responses were recorded in 10 normally-hearing adults while they listened to 16-second-long pure tone sequences. The carrier frequency of these sequences was either steady or alternating periodically throughout the sequence, generating an ACC response to each alternation—the alternating ACC paradigm. In the “alternating” sequences, both the alternating rate and the carrier frequency varied parametrically. We investigated three alternating rates (1, 2.5, and 6.5 Hz) and seven frequency pairs covering the low-, mid-, and high-frequency range, including narrow and wide frequency separations. Our results indicate that both the slowest (1 Hz) and medium (2.5 Hz) alternation rates led to significant FFR and ACC responses in most frequency ranges tested. Low carrier frequencies led to larger FFR litudes, larger P1 litudes, and N1-P2 litude difference at slow alternation rates. No significant relationship was found between subcortical and cortical response litudes, in line with different generators and processing levels across the auditory pathway. Overall, the alternating ACC paradigm can be used to measure sub-cortical and cortical responses as indicators of auditory early neural encoding (FFR) and sound discrimination (ACC) in the pathway, and these are best obtained at slow alternation rates (1 Hz) in the low-frequency range (300–1200 Hz).
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2021
DOI: 10.1016/J.HEARES.2020.108160
Abstract: The ability to process rapid modulations in the spectro-temporal structure of sounds is critical for speech comprehension. For users of cochlear implants (CIs), spectral cues in speech are conveyed by differential stimulation of electrode contacts along the cochlea, and temporal cues in terms of the litude of stimulating electrical pulses, which track the litude-modulated (AM'ed) envelope of speech sounds. Whilst survival of inner-ear neurons and spread of electrical current are known factors that limit the representation of speech information in CI listeners, limitations in the neural representation of dynamic spectro-temporal cues common to speech are also likely to play a role. We assessed the ability of CI listeners to process spectro-temporal cues varying at rates typically present in human speech. Employing an auditory change complex (ACC) paradigm, and a slow (0.5Hz) alternating rate between stimulating electrodes, or different AM frequencies, to evoke a transient cortical ACC, we demonstrate that CI listeners-like normal-hearing listeners-are sensitive to transitions in the spectral- and temporal-domain. However, CI listeners showed impaired cortical responses when either spectral or temporal cues were alternated at faster, speech-like (6-7Hz), rates. Specifically, auditory change following responses-reliably obtained in normal-hearing listeners-were small or absent in CI users, indicating that cortical adaptation to alternating cues at speech-like rates is stronger under electrical stimulation. In CI listeners, temporal processing was also influenced by the polarity-behaviourally-and rate of presentation of electrical pulses-both neurally and behaviorally. Limitations in the ability to process dynamic spectro-temporal cues will likely impact speech comprehension in CI users.
Publisher: RWTH Aachen University
Date: 2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2018
DOI: 10.1016/J.HEARES.2018.07.002
Abstract: The plasticity of the auditory system enables it to adjust to electrical stimulation from cochlear implants (CI). Whilst speech perception may develop for many years after implant activation, very little is known about the changes in auditory processing that underpin these improvements. Such an understanding could help guide interventions that improve hearing performance. In this longitudinal study, we examine how electrode discrimination ability changes over time in newly implanted adult CI users. Electrode discrimination was measured with a behavioural task as well as the spatial auditory change complex (ACC), which is a cortical response to a change in place of stimulation. We show that there was significant improvement in electrode discrimination ability over time, though in certain in iduals the process of accommodation was slower and more limited. We found a strong relationship between objective and behavioural measures of electrode discrimination using pass-fail rules. In several cases, the development of the spatial ACC preceded accurate behavioural discrimination. These data provide evidence for plasticity of auditory processing in adult CI users. Behavioural electrode discrimination score but not spatial ACC litude was found to be a significant predictor of speech perception. We suggest that it would be beneficial to measure electrode discrimination in CI users and that interventions that exploit the plastic capacity of the auditory system to improve basic auditory processing, could be used to optimize performance in CI users.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2018
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25474-6_21
Abstract: We assessed neural sensitivity to interaural time differences (ITDs) conveyed in the temporal fine structure (TFS) of low-frequency sounds and ITDs conveyed in the temporal envelope of litude-modulated (AM'ed) high-frequency sounds. Using electroencephalography (EEG), we recorded brain activity to sounds in which the interaural phase difference (IPD) of the TFS (or the modulated temporal envelope) was repeatedly switched between leading in one ear or the other. When the litude of the tones is modulated equally in the two ears at 41 Hz, the interaural phase modulation (IPM) evokes an IPM following-response (IPM-FR) in the EEG signal. For low-frequency signals, IPM-FRs were reliably obtained, and largest for an IPM rate of 6.8 Hz and when IPD switches (around 0°) were in the range 45-90°. IPDs conveyed in envelope of high-frequency tones also generated IPM-FRs response maxima occurred for IPDs switched between 0° and 180° IPD. This is consistent with the interpretation that distinct binaural mechanisms generate the IPM-FR at low and high frequencies, and with the reported physiological responses of medial superior olive (MSO) and lateral superior olive (LSO) neurons in other mammals. Low-frequency binaural neurons in the MSO are considered maximally activated by IPDs in the range 45-90°, consistent with their reception of excitatory inputs from both ears. High-frequency neurons in the LSO receive excitatory and inhibitory input from the two ears receptively--as such maximum activity occurs when the sounds at the two ears are presented out of phase.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 05-2018
End Date: 06-2022
Amount: $453,869.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 10-2016
End Date: 06-2023
Amount: $2,409,738.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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