Early Postoperative Benefits in Receptive and Expressive Language Development After Cochlear Implantation Under 9 Months of Age in Comparison to Implantation at Later Ages.

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"This study was supported by a 2023 Inje University research grant (granted to SJL), by the Basic Science Research Program through the NRF, funded by the Ministry of Education (Grant 2021R1A2C2092038 to BYC), the Bio Core Facility center program through the NRF-2022M3A9G1014007 (granted to BYC), the Basic Research Laboratory program through the NRF, funded by the Ministry of Education (Grant RS-2023-0021971031 482092640001 to BYC) and the Technology Innovation Program (K_G012002572001 to BYC) funded by the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE, Korea). This study was also funded by SNUBH intramural research fund (13-2022-0010, 02-2017-0060, and 13-2017-0013 to BYC). AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Conceptualization: SJL, BJK, BYC. Data curation: SJL, HO, KHS, SMP, YKK, DHJ, JY, YC. Formal analysis: SJL. Funding acquisition: SJL, BYC. Investigation: JY, YC, MYK, JHH, JAK, NTT. Methodology: SJL, BYC. Supervision: BJK, BYC. Validation: SJL, BJK, BYC. Visualization: SJL. Writing–original draft: SJL. Writing–review & editing: BJK, BYC."