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Behavioral training promotes multiple adaptive processes following acute hearing loss.

Peter Keating¹, Onayomi Rosenior-Patten¹, Johannes C Dahmen¹

¹Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

|March 24, 2016

Summary

Adults can adapt to hearing loss with training, using multiple brain strategies previously thought limited to development. This highlights neural flexibility across species and lifespan, suggesting new therapeutic approaches for sensory disorders.

Keywords:

adult plasticity hearing loss human neuroscience sound localization

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Auditory Perception
Sensory Plasticity

Background:

The brain adapts to sensory impairments by reinterpreting cues or relying on intact ones.
Adult adaptation to monaural (one-sided) hearing loss typically shows less flexibility than developmental adaptation.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if adult humans can utilize multiple adaptive processes for asymmetric hearing loss with behavioral training.
To explore the neural substrates of different plasticity forms in asymmetric hearing loss.

Main Methods:

Behavioral training in adult humans with monaural deprivation.
Cortical recordings in ferrets with asymmetric hearing loss.

Main Results:

Adult humans, with training, successfully exploited both adaptive strategies for asymmetric hearing loss.
Distinct neural substrates underlie different forms of auditory plasticity in asymmetric hearing loss.

Conclusions:

The capacity for multiple adaptive processes in asymmetric hearing loss is conserved across species and persists throughout life.
This neural flexibility suggests potential therapeutic strategies for sensory impairments.