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Attention to Speech and Music in Young Children with Bilateral Cochlear Implants: A Pupillometry Study.
Saksida, Amanda; Ghiselli, Sara; Picinali, Lorenzo; Pintonello, Sara; Battelino, Saba; Orzan, Eva.
Afiliação
  • Saksida A; Institute for Maternal and Child Health-IRCCS "Burlo Garofolo"-Trieste, 34137 Trieste, Italy.
  • Ghiselli S; Ospedale Guglielmo da Saliceto, 29121 Piacenza, Italy.
  • Picinali L; Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2DB, UK.
  • Pintonello S; Institute for Maternal and Child Health-IRCCS "Burlo Garofolo"-Trieste, 34137 Trieste, Italy.
  • Battelino S; Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • Orzan E; Institute for Maternal and Child Health-IRCCS "Burlo Garofolo"-Trieste, 34137 Trieste, Italy.
J Clin Med ; 11(6)2022 Mar 21.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35330071
Early bilateral cochlear implants (CIs) may enhance attention to speech, and reduce cognitive load in noisy environments. However, it is sometimes difficult to measure speech perception and listening effort, especially in very young children. Behavioral measures cannot always be obtained in young/uncooperative children, whereas objective measures are either difficult to assess or do not reliably correlate with behavioral measures. Recent studies have thus explored pupillometry as a possible objective measure. Here, pupillometry is introduced to assess attention to speech and music in noise in very young children with bilateral CIs (N = 14, age: 17-47 months), and in the age-matched group of normally-hearing (NH) children (N = 14, age: 22-48 months). The results show that the response to speech was affected by the presence of background noise only in children with CIs, but not NH children. Conversely, the presence of background noise altered pupil response to music only in in NH children. We conclude that whereas speech and music may receive comparable attention in comparable listening conditions, in young children with CIs, controlling for background noise affects attention to speech and speech processing more than in NH children. Potential implementations of the results for rehabilitation procedures are discussed.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2022 Tipo de documento: Article