Session: Basic Research
Moderators: David Friedland, MD, PhD & Alan Cheng, MD

• White Matter Anisotropy in the Left Anterior Superior Temporal Region Predicts Speech Perception Improvement in Young Cochlear Implant Recipients, Nancy Young, MD
• Morphological Neural Preservation Underlies Speech Perception Improvement in Young Cochlear Implant Recipients, Patrick Wong, PhD
• Spectral-Temporal Modulated Ripple Discrimination by Children with Cochlear Implants, David Landsberger, PhD
• Magnetic Targeting of Stem Cell and Gene Therapy to the Inner Ear, Trung Le, MD, PhD, FRCSC
• Novel Approaches to Microbial Opsin Delivery for an Optogenetic Based Cochlear Implant, Vivek Kanumuri, MD
• Vowel Recognition Scores of Children with Cochlear Implants are Related to Speech-Based Spectral Resolution and Time with the Implant, Mishaela DiNino, MA
• Automatic Cochlea Segmentation Using Diffusion Snakes, Ibraheem Al-Dhamari, MSc