Table I.
Clinical data for the ten cochlear implant candidates enrolled in the sound imagery task
| Subject number | Sex | Age at experiment (years) | Duration of bilateral HL (years) | Duration of auditory deprivation (months) | WRS pre‐CIa (%, 60 dB HL) | WRS post‐CI (%, 60 dB HL) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | F | 67.7 | 46 | 36 | 0 | 48 |
| 2 | M | 45 | 26 | 4 | 0 | 41 |
| 3 | F | 32 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 69 |
| 4 | M | 57.9 | 41 | 16 | 0 | 84 |
| 5 | F | 59 | 11 | 36 | 0 | 88 |
| 6 | F | 56.2 | 23 | 36 | 0 | 24 |
| 7 | F | 25.5 | 0.5 | 5 | 0 | 86 |
| 8 | F | 56 | 22 | 48 | 0 | 48 |
| 9 | F | 73 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 86 |
| 10 | F | 54.7 | 30 | — | 50 | 28 |
HL: hearing loss; WRS: word recognition scores.
The 7 patients who also participated in the phonological task are numbered 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, and 10.
Duration of bilateral hearing loss represents the time elapsed since subjective auditory acuity decrease, leading to the use of hearing aids.
Duration of auditory deprivation represents the time elapsed since subjects could no longer communicate by hearing, even with the best‐fitted hearing aid, without lip‐reading. Because Subject 10 had some residual hearing, this definition was not applicable in her case.
a
With optimally fitted hearing aids, Lafon test (three‐phoneme monosyllabic words).