Comparative Analysis of Cortical Auditory Evoked Potential in Cochlear Implant Users.

Objectives: The primary goal of the study was to investigate electrical cortical auditory evoked potentials (eCAEPs) at maximum comfortable level (MCL) and 50% MCL on three cochlear implant (CI) electrodes and compare them with the acoustic CAEP (aCAEPs), in terms of the amplitude and latency of the P1-N1-P2 complex. This was achieved by comparing the eCAEP obtained with the method described and stimulating single electrodes, via the fitting software spanning the cochlear array and the aCAEP obtained using the HEARLab system at four speech tokens.

Design: Twenty MED-EL (MED-EL Medical Electronics, Innsbruck, Austria) CI adult users were tested.