Patient history predicts only 10 percent of cochlear implant speech outcomes
Evidence
In this paper, we summarise what is already known about brain plasticity due to deafness and propose that functional near-infra-red spectroscopy (fNIRS) is an imaging method that has potential to provide prognostic and diagnostic information for cochlear implant users. Currently, patient history factors account for only 10 % of the variation in post-implantation speech understanding, and very few post-implantation behavioural measures of hearing ability correlate with speech understanding. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 4270
Currently, patient history factors account for only 10 % of the variation in post-implantation speech understanding, and very few post-implantation behavioural measures of hearing ability correlate with speech understanding. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 4270
Categorization
- QUESTION: What accounts for the other 90% of variation in post-implant speech understanding? That unexplained variance is precisely where brain-imaging prognostics would fit.
- SEED: An article angle: the striking failure of patient-history factors to predict cochlear implant success, and why brain imaging may outperform them.
- corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 4270
- XREF: connects to: Cross-modal brain plasticity from deafness variably helps or harms cochlear implant outcomes — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 4274
Broader Connections
- Cross-modal brain plasticity from deafness variably helps or harms cochlear implant outcomes
#expands(0.80) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 4274