Jean-François Knebel
Switzerland
Research Article
Differences in Click and Speech Auditory Brainstem Responses and Cortical Response Patterns: A Pilot Study
Author(s): Jean-François Knebel, Arnaud Jeanvoine, Fabian Guignard, Jean-Marc Vesin and Céline RichardJean-François Knebel, Arnaud Jeanvoine, Fabian Guignard, Jean-Marc Vesin and Céline Richard
Hearing loss has adverse developmental, cognitive and social impacts on individual’s lives. To improve its diagnosis and remediation outcomes, development of objective hearing methods offer new ways of optimizing care strategy. Complementary to the classical click-evoked brainstem and cortical responses, interest grows regarding the speech auditory brainstem responses, whose components, namely the onset and frequency following responses, are proposed as biomarkers of speech encoding at the brainstem level. To improve the understanding of auditory processing in the human brainstem and its effect on cortical processing, we used a multimodal set-up and recorded brainstem and cortical potentials in response to click stimuli and speech stimuli presented at different stimulation intensities in normal hearing adults. We hypothesized that even though click- and onset responses of the speec.. View More»
