Journal
AUDIOLOGY AND NEURO-OTOLOGY
Volume 20, Issue -, Pages 7-12Publisher
KARGER
DOI: 10.1159/000380742
Keywords
Asymmetric hearing; Cochlear implants; Hearing loss; Unilateral deafness
Funding
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all)
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Single-sided deafness initiates extensive adaptations in the central auditory system, with the consequence that a stronger and a weaker ear representation develops in the auditory brain. Animal studies demonstrated that the effects are substantially stronger if the condition starts early in development. Sequential binaural cochlear implantations with longer interimplant delays demonstrate that the speech comprehension at the weaker ear is substantially compromised. A pronounced loss of the ability to extract and represent binaural localisation cues accompanies this condition, as shown in animal models. (C) 2015 S. Karger AG, Basel
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