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Existing artifact reduction methods are typically based on event-related potentials or require manual component selection, making them unsuitable for naturalistic listening conditions or large datasets.\n                    <jats:italic>Approach.<\/jats:italic>\n                    We develop CORSICA (CORrelation-baSed ICA artifact rejection), a reproducible, parameter-efficient method for CI artifact reduction in EEG responses to continuous speech. CORSICA operates on independent components (ICs) obtained through Infomax ICA and requires no manual component labeling, with performance governed by a single tunable threshold. It exploits the observation that CI artifacts temporally follow the audio signal without delay, whereas neural responses have an inherent lag due to auditory pathway latencies. For each IC, CORSICA computes the cross-correlation with the speech stimulus. Artifacts are identified by a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the correlation peak near zero lag, and the component is rejected if this SNR exceeds a threshold. To benchmark CORSICA, we evaluate two alternatives: a TRF-based SNR method, in which temporal response functions are fitted to each IC and artifact-driven peaks near zero lag are used for rejection, and a variant replacing ICA with second-order blind identification (SOBI) as the source separation step.\n                    <jats:italic>Main results.<\/jats:italic>\n                    CORSICA effectively suppressed CI artifacts while preserving neural activity, enabling recovery of physiologically plausible TRFs with only 2% of ICs rejected. Both benchmark methods confirmed the validity of the SNR-based rejection framework, but CORSICA outperformed the TRF-based alternative in artifact suppression quality. Replacing ICA with SOBI as the source separation step required more ICs to be rejected, further supporting ICA as the preferred backbone for CORSICA.\n                    <jats:italic>Significance.<\/jats:italic>\n                    CORSICA provides a fully objective, label-free approach to identifying CI artifacts in speech-evoked EEG data, with no manual intervention required. By centering artifact rejection on a single interpretable threshold, it offers a reproducible preprocessing standard for future EEG studies on speech processing in CI users.\n                    <jats:italic>Conclusion.<\/jats:italic>\n                    Our findings demonstrate that objective CI artifact suppression in speech-evoked EEG data is feasible on the basis of the IC\u2019s temporal response patterns.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1088\/1741-2552\/aea36e","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,7]],"date-time":"2026-09-07T22:53:34Z","timestamp":1788821614000},"page":"056025","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["CORSICA: reproducible suppression of cochlear implant artifacts in EEG evoked by continuous speech"],"prefix":"10.1088","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0001-5147-157X","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Constantin","family":"Jehn","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Friedrich-Alexander-Universit\u00e4t Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg (FAU)"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"conceptualization","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"formal-analysis","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"methodology","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"software","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"visualization","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-original-draft","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-review-editing","vocabulary":"credit"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-7979-9620","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Clara","family":"Stiller","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Friedrich-Alexander-Universit\u00e4t Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg (FAU)"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"formal-analysis","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"software","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"visualization","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-original-draft","vocabulary":"credit"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5009-1719","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Niki Katerina","family":"Vavatzanidis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Technische Universit\u00e4t Dresden"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"supervision","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-review-editing","vocabulary":"credit"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3367-3511","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Tobias","family":"Reichenbach","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Friedrich-Alexander-Universit\u00e4t Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg (FAU)"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"conceptualization","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"project-administration","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"resources","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-review-editing","vocabulary":"credit"}]}],"member":"266","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"jneaea36ebib1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"392","DOI":"10.1109\/TNSRE.2018.2789780","type":"journal-article","article-title":"The cochlear implant EEG artifact recorded from an artificial brain for complex acoustic stimuli","volume":"26","author":"Wagner","year":"2018","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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