Phonological processing and neuro-imaging, with and without cochlear implants
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With R. Pasquinelli, J. Kim, J. Brown, G. Basura, T. Zwolan, X. Hu and I. Kovelman
This study reports two English phonological processing tasks – rhyme judgment and sentence prosody matching – with children ages 7-11 who received a cochlear implant before age 2, compared to age-matched children with normal hearing. While completing these tasks, children’s brain activation was simultaneously registered using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). The resulting differences between populations and task conditions, and correlations with some non-linguistic processing measures (backwards digit span), support our ongoing investigation of how individual variation in CI outcomes might be explained.