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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology Année : 2020

Impedance measures for a better understanding of the electrical stimulation of the inner ear

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Cochlear implant (CI) performance varies dramatically between subjects. Although the causes of this variability remain unclear, the electrode-neuron interface is thought to play an important role. Here we evaluate the contribution of two parameters of this interface on the perception of CI listeners: the electrode-to-modiolar wall distance (EMD), estimated from cone-beam computed tomography (CT) scans, and a measure of neural health. Since there is no objective way to quantify neural health in CI users, we measure stimulus polarity sensitivity, which is assumed to be related to neural degeneration, and investigate whether it also correlates with subjects’ performance in speech recognition and spectro-temporal modulation detection tasks. Detection thresholds were measured in fifteen CI users (sixteen ears) for partial-tripolar triphasic pulses having an anodic or a cathodic central phase. The polarity effect was defined as the difference in threshold between cathodic and anodic stimuli. Our results show that both the EMD and the polarity effect correlate with detection thresholds, both across and within subjects, although the within-subject correlations were weak. Furthermore, the mean polarity effect, averaged across all electrodes for each subject, was negatively correlated with performance on a spectro-temporal modulation detection task. In other words, lower cathodic thresholds were associated with better spectro-temporal modulation detection performance, which is also consistent with polarity sensitivity being a marker of neural degeneration. Implications for the design of future subject-specific fitting strategies are discussed.
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hal-03036903 , version 1 (02-12-2020)

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Quentin Mesnildrey, Frédéric Venail, Robert P Carlyon, Olivier Macherey. Impedance measures for a better understanding of the electrical stimulation of the inner ear. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 2020, 21 (1), pp.89 - 104. ⟨10.1007/s10162-020-00742-7⟩. ⟨hal-03036903⟩
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