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  • Sensory Processing

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  • Neural and behavioral plasticity occur after sensory loss.
  • Multisensory processing variations across hearing loss phenotypes are not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate visual perception and audiovisual (AV) integration in adults with varying hearing loss.
  • To examine the effects of hearing technology use (hearing aids [HA], cochlear implants [CI]) on multisensory processing.

Main Methods:

  • Participants: Normal hearing (NH), HA users, CI candidates, CI users.
  • Tasks: Visual temporal order judgment (vTOJ), McGurk illusion, lipreading, AV word recognition.
  • Analysis: Assessed visual and multisensory processing across groups.

Main Results:

  • Visual temporal resolution showed a trend toward improvement with increased hearing loss (confounded by age).
  • Hearing loss decreased auditory weighting and increased visual weighting in the McGurk illusion.
  • Lipreading performance improved with hearing loss severity; CI users performed best.
  • AV benefit did not systematically vary with hearing loss but was affected by age.

Conclusions:

  • Visual performance and sensory weighting, not AV integration, are modulated by hearing loss, suggesting cortical plasticity.
  • Visual tasks can help characterize sensory phenotypes in hearing loss.
  • Findings may inform clinical decision-making for individuals with hearing loss.