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Mackenzie Lighterink, Ph.D. & Au.D. Student, B.A., Vanderbilt University

Contact: mackenzie.a.lighterink@vanderbilt.edu

Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain the principle of inverse effectiveness and its role in our assessment of audiovisual benefit

  2. Describe two benefits and two limitations of using function near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to study auditory processing in the cochlear implant population

  3. Summarize how cross-modal plasticity or activation may contribute to variability in pediatric cochlear implant outcomes