Sentences with phrase «when cochlear implants»

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Levanway lost most of his hearing when was 4 years old because of an illness, but cochlear implants let him hear close to normally in face - to - face conversations.

Using data from brain imaging techniques that enable visualising the brain's activity, a neuroscientist at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and a Parisian ENT surgeon have managed to decipher brain reorganisation processes at work when people start to lose their hearing, and thus predict the success or failure of a cochlear implant among people who have become profoundly deaf in their adult life.

In addition to her cochlear implant, she wears a powerful hearing aid in her left ear and uses other technologies when she needs to communicate by phone.

Although not involved in research on SSDs, Lomber has studied the visual cortex and currently focuses on how the brain responds when hearing is restored (as in deaf people who receive cochlear implants).

«Millie has two sonic envelopes,» said Van der Ryn, «one with her cochlear implant turned on and one when it's turned off.

When he's not prepping for the baby or hunting their dinner, Lee is ever - tinkering with new tech, trying to create a cochlear implant for his hearing impaired daughter (Simmonds) that actually works.