Chronic Bilateral Cochlear Implant Stimulation Partially Restores Neural Binaural Sensitivity in Neonatally-Deaf Rabbits
- Authors
- Sunwoo, Woongsang; Delgutte, Bertrand; Chung, Yoojin
- Issue Date
- 21-Apr-2021
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Keywords
- Binaural hearing; Cochlear implant; Deafness; Development; Interaural time difference; Plasticity
- Citation
- Journal of Neuroscience, v.41, no.16, pp.3651 - 3664
- Journal Title
- Journal of Neuroscience
- Volume
- 41
- Number
- 16
- Start Page
- 3651
- End Page
- 3664
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/82186
- DOI
- 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1076-20.2021
- ISSN
- 0270-6474
- Abstract
- Cochlear implant (CI) users with a prelingual onset of hearing loss show poor sensitivity to interaural time differences (ITDs), an important cue for sound localization and speech reception in noise. Similarly, neural ITD sensitivity in the inferior colliculus (IC) of neonatally-deafened animals is degraded compared with animals deafened as adults. Here, we show that chronic bilateral CI stimulation during development can partly reverse the effect of early-onset deafness on ITD sensitivity. The prevalence of ITD sensitive neurons was restored to the level of adult-deaf (AD) rabbits in the early-deaf rabbits of both sexes that received chronic stimulation and behavioral training with wearable bilateral sound processors during development. We also found a partial improvement in neural ITD sensitivity in the early-deaf and stimulated rabbits compared with unstimulated rabbits. In contrast, chronic CI stimulation did not improve temporal coding in early-deaf rabbits. The present study is the first report showing functional restoration of ITD sensitivity with CI stimulation in single neurons and highlights the importance of auditory experience during development on the maturation of binaural circuitry. © 2021 Society for Neuroscience. All rights reserved.
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