So far four people have had the internal microphone implanted and hooked up to
their normal cochlear implant, with two more trials to follow later this year, says Jenkins, who has been assessing the devices.
Not exact matches
To test the theory, the two recruited 11 adult volunteers, some with
normal hearing and some who had gone deaf within the past 20 years but who wore
cochlear implants.
Compared with stimulation from traditional
cochlear implant electrodes, the light produced more precise neural activity in the brain stem, similar to
normal hearing.
Many people with profound hearing loss have been helped by devices called
cochlear implants, but their hearing is still far from
normal.
Presentation # 4aSCb9, «Acoustic characteristics of infant - directed speech to
normal hearing and hearing - impaired twins with hearing aids and
cochlear implants: A case study,» by Maria V. Kondaurova, Tonya R. Bergeson - Dana and Neil A. Wright will be presented during a poster session on Thursday, October 30, 2014.
This discovery helps explain how humans can recover their perception of speech with electronic
cochlear implants, which generate signals much simpler than
normal auditory inputs.
Predicting social functioning in children with a
cochlear implant and in
normal - hearing children: The role of emotion regulation.