Neurophysiological characterization of normal hearing and unilateral hearing loss children: a comparison among EEG-based indices for information processing and decision-making levels.
The identification of measurable indices of cerebral functions to be
applied in clinical settings is ever more felt as necessary for a more thorough
and objective evaluation of patients cognitive performance. In the present
paper, the electroencephalographic-based indices of mental workload (WL =
frontal θ/parietal α) and of mental engagement (ME = β/(α+θ)), calculated
along the brain midline, have been employed to characterize the eventual
specific patterns of cerebral activations during a speech in noise perception task