Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Faster phonological processing and right occipito-temporal coupling in deaf adults signal poor cochlear implant outcome

  • Diane S. Lazard,
  • Anne-Lise Giraud

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14872
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Cochlear implants have variable outcomes for adult deafness. Here the authors show that fast responses and specific recruitment of right temporal cortex on a simple visual rhyming task strongly predicts poor implant performance.