Author(s): Zhang Y; Sares A; Delage A; Lehmann A; Deroche M;

For individuals with hearing loss, even successful speech communication comes at a cost. Cochlear implants transmit degraded information, specifically for voice pitch, which demands extra and sustained listening effort. The current study hypothesized that abnormal pitch patterns contribute to the additional listening effort, even in non-tonal language nat ...

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Author(s): Lew EC; Sares A; Gilbert AC; Zhang Y; Lehmann A; Deroche M;

Purpose: Greater recognition of the impact of hearing loss on cognitive functions has led speech/hearing clinics to focus more on auditory memory outcomes. Typically evaluated by scoring participants' recall on a list of unrelated words after they have heard the list read out loud, this method implies pitch and timing variations across words. Here, we ...

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Author(s): Esber GR; Usypchuk A; Saini S; Deroche M; Iordanova MD; Schoenbaum G;

The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is often proposed to function as a value integrator; however, alternative accounts focus on its role in representing associative structures that specify the probability and sensory identity of future outcomes. These two accounts make different predictions about how this area should respond to conditioned inhibitors of reward ...

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Author(s): Alemi R; Wolfe J; Neumann S; Manning J; Towler W; Koirala N; Gracco VL; Deroche M;

Sensory deprivation can offset the balance of audio versus visual information in multimodal processing. Such a phenomenon could persist for children born deaf, even after they receive cochlear implants (CIs), and could potentially explain why one modality is given priority over the other. Here, we recorded cortical responses to a single speaker uttering t ...

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Author(s): Alemi R; Wolfe J; Neumann S; Manning J; Hanna L; Towler W; Wilson C; Bien A; Miller S; Schafer E; Gemignani J; Koirala N; Gracco VL; Deroche M;

Auditory-motor and visual-motor networks are often coupled in daily activities, such as when listening to music and dancing; but these networks are known to be highly malleable as a function of sensory input. Thus, congenital deafness may modify neural activities within the connections between th ...

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Author(s): Wolfe J; Deroche M; Neumann S; Hanna L; Towler W; Wilson C; Bien AG; Miller S; Schafer EC; Gracco V;

<strong>Background:</strong> Considerable variability exists in the speech recognition abilities achieved by children with cochlear implants (CIs) due to varying demographic and performance variables including language abilities.

<strong>Purpose:</strong> This ar ...

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