cochlear implants
Have cochlear implant, won’t have to travel: introducing telemedicine to people using cochlear implants
... At the end of 2014, 41% of the world were using the internet (The World Bank, 2015). Half of the world’s population now has at least one mobile phone account. By 2020 it is predicted that around 60% of the global ...
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Implantable microphones as an alternative to external microphones for cochlear implants
... implantable cochlear implants may be able to address many of the problems cochlear implant users have around cosmetic appearances, discomfort and restriction of ...for cochlear implants ...
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Current flow patterns generated by cochlear implants
... system. Cochlear implants were first available commercially in the 1970’s as single channel devices providing limited ...100,000 cochlear implant users ...
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Parents Perceived Quality of Life for Children with Cochlear Implants
... Many cochlear implant operations have been done to over 150,000 people including both children and adults worldwide ...their implants in different ways, so audiome- tric measures do not tell us directly ...
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A Psychoacoustic "NofM"-Type Speech Coding Strategy for Cochlear Implants
... The choice of the parameters that define the spreading function requires more thorough investigation in the future. The spreading function determines how much one channel masks the adjacent frequency bands. As this is ...
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Pre- and post-operative imaging of cochlear implants: a pictorial review
... Cochlear implants are increasingly used to treat sensorineural hearing disorders in both children and ...dislocation, cochlear dislocation, electrode fold, and malposition of the electrode array may ...
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Music Training Improves Pitch Perception in Prelingually Deafened Children With Cochlear Implants
... CONCLUSIONS: Musical training seems to improve pitch perception ability in prelingually deafened children with a cochlear implant. Audi- tory plasticity might play an important role in such enhancement. This ...
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Cochlear implants in the deaf community: Current circumstances of cochlear implant users among the deaf youth in Sweden’s educational system
... able to perceive speech and sounds better when implanted at a younger age, but when it comes to developing the linguistic skills, they will learn them most likely at the same level as a hearing person in preschool or ...
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Semitone frequency mapping to improve music representation for nucleus cochlear implants
... for Cochlear implant (CI) signal processors was originally designed to optimize speech perception and generally does not preserve the harmonic structure of music ...
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Adaptation by normal listeners to upward spectral shifts of speech: Implications for cochlear implants
... That implant patients do, in fact, adapt to an altered spectral representation is seen most clearly in a recent study by Fu and Shannon 共 1999 兲 . They manipulated the spectral representation of vowels in normal ...
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Array signal processing in cochlear implants with regularized inversion
... situ cochlear implants to determine the full impedance ...Each cochlear electrode was excited with a prescribed current and the induced voltages at all other electrodes were then ...
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Cochlear implants for children and adults with severe to profound deafness
... bilateral cochlear implantation were less certain than the benefits of unilateral cochlear ...second cochlear implant in relation to speech perception in noisy situations and directional perception ...
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Adaptive Pitch Transposition: Smart Auditory Spectral Shifts in Cochlear Implants
... Even with properly implanted and operating cochlear implants, not all patients enjoy sufficient speech recognition. In addition to the small number of electrodes and limited brain plasticity, the cochlea ...
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Production of Voicing Contrast in Children with Cochlear Implants
... Previous research has documented variabil- ity in speech production by speakers with CI. With reference to stop production, VOT du- ration has been reported to differ for chil- dren with Cochlear Implants ...
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Bacterial Meningitis Among Children With Cochlear Implants Beyond 24 Months After Implantation
... In the 2002 investigation, cases were ascertained through several sources, including contact with all par- ents. For the 2004 investigation, we did not contact parents but relied on reports to the FDA, CDC, and state ...
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Analysis of post implantation speech recognition abilities of children with hearing impairment using cochlear implants
... using cochlear implants (CWHI) in one ear, with no sensory aid in the other, one year post implant ...24 Cochlear implant- Freedom or N5 (810) (ACE processing strategy); from Hindi speaking ...
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Recent Advances in Cochlear Implants
... since cochlear implants were first intro- duced include the addition of magnets for retention of the external coil; development of more efficient, current- focusing electrodes and precoiled arrays; ...
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CT of postmeningitic deafness: observations and predictive value for cochlear implants in children
... received cochlear implants as treatment for profound postmeningitic deafness and who were assessed with polytomography after sur- ...scribed cochlear and round window ossification as mild forms of ...
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Cochlear Implants and Classroom Learning among Deaf College Students
... Cochlear implants (CIs) are able to provide many deaf children with greater access to sound than ever before. By virtue of having greater access to sound, and to spoken language in particular, those ...
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What do cochlear implants teach us about the encoding of frequency in the auditory system?
... Psychoacoustic data from cochlear implants seem to refute the idea that temporal coding mechanisms are utilized by the central auditory system to extract frequency information from[r] ...
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