The Surprising Performance of Present-Day Cochlear Implants

The speech reception performance of a recipient of the Clarion CII implant was evaluated with a comprehensive set of tests. The same tests were administered for a group of six subjects with normal hearing. Scores for the implant subject were not different from the scores for the normal-hearing subje...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on biomedical engineering 2007-06, Vol.54 (6), p.969-972
Main Authors: Wilson, Blake S., Dorman, Michael F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Auditory implants
Auditory prosthesis
Auditory system
cochlear implant
Cochlear Implants
Deafness
Deafness - diagnosis
Deafness - rehabilitation
Electrodes
Equipment Design
Equipment Failure Analysis
hearing
Hearing Tests
Humans
Male
neural prosthesis
Prosthetics
Recovery of Function
Speech analysis
speech perception
Speech recognition
Surgery
Testing
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Summary:The speech reception performance of a recipient of the Clarion CII implant was evaluated with a comprehensive set of tests. The same tests were administered for a group of six subjects with normal hearing. Scores for the implant subject were not different from the scores for the normal-hearing subjects, for seven of the nine tests, including the most difficult test used in standard clinical practice. These results are both surprising and encouraging, in that the implant provides only a very crude mimicking of only some aspects of the normal physiology
ISSN:0018-9294
1558-2531
DOI:10.1109/TBME.2007.893505