Open AccessEffects of Early Auditory Deprivation on Working Memory and Reasoning Abilities in Verbal and Visuospatial Domains for Pediatric Cochlear Implant Recipients
Author(s) -
Lisa Davidson,
Ann E. Geers,
Sandra Hale,
Mitchell S. Sommers,
Christine Brenner,
Brent Spehar
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ear and hearing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.577
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1538-4667
pISSN - 0196-0202
DOI - 10.1097/aud.0000000000000629
Subject(s) - working memory , psychology , peabody picture vocabulary test , verbal reasoning , developmental psychology , short term memory , wechsler adult intelligence scale , spatial memory , audiology , verbal memory , wechsler preschool and primary scale of intelligence , intelligence quotient , cognition , cognitive psychology , vocabulary , affect (linguistics) , wechsler intelligence scale for children , medicine , neuroscience , linguistics , philosophy , communication
The overall goal of this study was to compare verbal and visuospatial working memory in children with normal hearing (NH) and with cochlear implants (CI). The main questions addressed by this study were (1) Does auditory deprivation result in global or domain-specific deficits in working memory in children with CIs compared with their NH age mates? (2) Does the potential for verbal recoding affect performance on measures of reasoning ability in children with CIs relative to their NH age mates? and (3) Is performance on verbal and visuospatial working memory tasks related to spoken receptive language level achieved by children with CIs?