Our latest work looking at functional connectivity of cochlear implant users will be presented by Jamal Esmaelpoor at the fNIRS conference to be held at the University of Birmingham (fNIRS 2024) and a preprint of the upcoming paper is available here: doi:10.1101/2024.08.22.24312200

The outcome of the first study on the relationship between resting-state functional connectivity and speech outcomes has recently been published in Ear & Hearing (doi:10.1097/AUD.0000000000001564) and this new work extends the concept of using functional connectivity to understand outcomes in cochlear implant users by developing a robust approach for assessing task-induced cross-modal functional connectivity.

Copies of both papers are available here: Resting-state Functional Connectivity Predicts Cochlear-Implant Speech Outcomes, Cross-modal Functional Plasticity after Cochlear-implantation.