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Impact of NICE technology appraisal guidance TA566 on access to cochlear implantation for children using hearing aids in the United Kingdom: a multisite observational study (2024)
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Killan, C. F., Hoare, D. J., Hartley, D. E., Church, P., Isherwood, F., Nasim, S., …Kitterick, P. T. (2024). Impact of NICE technology appraisal guidance TA566 on access to cochlear implantation for children using hearing aids in the United Kingdom: a multisite observational study. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 109(8), 690-691. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2023-326055

Tinnitus, Suicide, and Suicidal Ideation: A Scoping Review of Primary Research (2023)
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MacDonald, C., Caimino, C., Burns-O’Connell, G., Hartley, D., Lockwood, J., Sereda, M., …J. Hoare, D. (2023). Tinnitus, Suicide, and Suicidal Ideation: A Scoping Review of Primary Research. Brain Sciences, 13(10), Article 1496. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13101496

Tinnitus (the perception of sound in the absence of any corresponding external source) is highly prevalent and can be distressing. There are unanswered questions about how tinnitus, suicidal thoughts, and suicidal behaviours co-occur and interact. To... Read More about Tinnitus, Suicide, and Suicidal Ideation: A Scoping Review of Primary Research.

Listening efficiency in adult cochlear-implant users compared with normally-hearing controls at ecologically relevant signal-to-noise ratios (2023)
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Perea Pérez, F., Hartley, D. E. H., Kitterick, P. T., Zekveld, A. A., Naylor, G., & Wiggins, I. M. (2023). Listening efficiency in adult cochlear-implant users compared with normally-hearing controls at ecologically relevant signal-to-noise ratios. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17, Article 1214485. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1214485

Introduction: Due to having to work with an impoverished auditory signal, cochlear-implant (CI) users may experience reduced speech intelligibility and/or increased listening effort in real-world listening situations, compared to their normally-heari... Read More about Listening efficiency in adult cochlear-implant users compared with normally-hearing controls at ecologically relevant signal-to-noise ratios.

Perceived Listening Difficulties of Adult Cochlear-Implant Users Under Measures Introduced to Combat the Spread of COVID-19 (2022)
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Perea Pérez, F., Hartley, D. E., Kitterick, P. T., & Wiggins, I. M. (2022). Perceived Listening Difficulties of Adult Cochlear-Implant Users Under Measures Introduced to Combat the Spread of COVID-19. Trends in Hearing, 26, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/23312165221087011

Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, public-health measures introduced to stem the spread of the disease caused profound changes to patterns of daily-life communication. This paper presents the results of an online survey conducted to doc... Read More about Perceived Listening Difficulties of Adult Cochlear-Implant Users Under Measures Introduced to Combat the Spread of COVID-19.

Use of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy to Predict and Measure Cochlear Implant Outcomes: A Scoping Review (2021)
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Harrison, S. C., Lawrence, R., Hoare, D. J., Wiggins, I. M., & Hartley, D. E. H. (2021). Use of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy to Predict and Measure Cochlear Implant Outcomes: A Scoping Review. Brain Sciences, 11(11), Article 1439. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11111439

Outcomes following cochlear implantation vary widely for both adults and children, and behavioral tests are currently relied upon to assess this. However, these behavioral tests rely on subjective judgements that can be unreliable, particularly for i... Read More about Use of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy to Predict and Measure Cochlear Implant Outcomes: A Scoping Review.

Evaluating cortical responses to speech in children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study (2020)
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Lawrence, R. J., Wiggins, I. M., Hodgson, J. C., & Hartley, D. E. (2021). Evaluating cortical responses to speech in children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study. Hearing Research, 401, Article 108155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2020.108155

Functional neuroimaging of speech processing has both research and clinical potential. This work is facilitating an ever-increasing understanding of the complex neural mechanisms involved in the processing of speech. Neural correlates of speech under... Read More about Evaluating cortical responses to speech in children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study.

Evaluating cortical responses to speech in children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study (2020)
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Lawrence, R., Wiggins, I., Hodgson, J., & Hartley, D. (2021). Evaluating cortical responses to speech in children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study. Hearing Research, 401, Article 108155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2020.108155

Functional neuroimaging of speech processing has both research and clinical potential. This work is facilitating an ever-increasing understanding of the complex neural mechanisms involved in the processing of speech. Neural correlates of speech under... Read More about Evaluating cortical responses to speech in children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study.

Recommended Personal Protective Equipment for Cochlear Implant and Other Mastoid Surgery During the COVID-19 Era (2020)
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Lawrence, R. J., O'Donoghue, G., Kitterick, P., O'Donoghue, K., Hague, R., Mitchell, L., …Hartley, D. E. (2020). Recommended Personal Protective Equipment for Cochlear Implant and Other Mastoid Surgery During the COVID-19 Era. Laryngoscope, 130(11), 2693-2699. https://doi.org/10.1002/lary.29014

© 2020 American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society Inc, "The Triological Society" and American Laryngological Association (ALA) Objectives/Hypothesis: The overall aim of this study was to evaluate personal protective equipment (PPE)... Read More about Recommended Personal Protective Equipment for Cochlear Implant and Other Mastoid Surgery During the COVID-19 Era.

Shedding Light On The Human Auditory Cortex: A Review Of The Advances In Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) (2019)
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Harrison, S., & Hartley, D. (2019). Shedding Light On The Human Auditory Cortex: A Review Of The Advances In Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS). Reports in Medical Imaging, 12, 31-42. https://doi.org/10.2147/rmi.s174633

Imaging the auditory cortex can prove challenging using neuroimaging methodologies due to interfering noise from the scanner in fMRI and the low spatial resolution of EEG. Optical imaging provides a new and exciting option for exploring this key cort... Read More about Shedding Light On The Human Auditory Cortex: A Review Of The Advances In Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS).

Listening in naturalistic scenes: what can functional near-infrared spectroscopy and intersubject correlation analysis tell us about the underlying brain activity? (2018)
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Rowland, S. C., Hartley, D. E. H., & Wiggins, I. M. (2018). Listening in naturalistic scenes: what can functional near-infrared spectroscopy and intersubject correlation analysis tell us about the underlying brain activity?. Trends in Hearing, 22, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216518804116

Listening to speech in the noisy conditions of everyday life can be effortful, reflecting the increased cognitive workload involved in extracting meaning from a degraded acoustic signal. Studying the underlying neural processes has the potential to p... Read More about Listening in naturalistic scenes: what can functional near-infrared spectroscopy and intersubject correlation analysis tell us about the underlying brain activity?.

Brain activity underlying the recovery of meaning from degraded speech: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study (2017)
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Wijayasiri, P., Hartley, D. E., & Wiggins, I. M. (2017). Brain activity underlying the recovery of meaning from degraded speech: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study. Hearing Research, 351, 55-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2017.05.010

The purpose of this study was to establish whether functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), an emerging brain-imaging technique based on optical principles, is suitable for studying the brain activity that underlies effortful listening. In an e... Read More about Brain activity underlying the recovery of meaning from degraded speech: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study.

A synchrony-dependent influence of sounds on activity in visual cortex measured using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) (2015)
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Evidence from human neuroimaging and animal electrophysiological studies suggests that signals from different sensory modalities interact early in cortical processing, including in primary sensory cortices. The present study aimed to test whether fun... Read More about A synchrony-dependent influence of sounds on activity in visual cortex measured using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS).

Cortical cross-modal plasticity following deafness measured using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (2015)
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Hartley, D. E., & Dewey, R. S. (2015). Cortical cross-modal plasticity following deafness measured using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Hearing Research, 325, 55-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2015.03.007

Evidence from functional neuroimaging studies suggests that the auditory cortex can become more responsive to visual and somatosensory stimulation following deafness, and that this occurs predominately in the right hemisphere. Extensive cross-modal p... Read More about Cortical cross-modal plasticity following deafness measured using functional near-infrared spectroscopy.