Recent advances in cochlear implant electrode array design parameters

YN Ertas, D Ozpolat, SN Karasu, N Ashammakhi - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cochlear implants are neural implant devices that aim to restore hearing in patients with
severe sensorineural hearing impairment. Here, the main goal is to successfully place the …

Strategic pauses relieve listeners from the effort of listening to fast speech: data limited and resource limited processes in narrative recall by adult users of cochlear …

RM O'Leary, J Neukam, TA Hansen… - Trends in …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Speech that has been artificially accelerated through time compression produces a notable
deficit in recall of the speech content. This is especially so for adults with cochlear implants …

Speech recognition as a function of the number of channels in perimodiolar electrode recipients

KA Berg, JH Noble, BM Dawant, RT Dwyer… - The Journal of the …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
This study investigated the number of channels needed for maximum speech understanding
and sound quality in 30 adult cochlear implant (CI) recipients with perimodiolar electrode …

[HTML][HTML] High-and low-performing adult cochlear implant users on high-variability sentence recognition: Differences in auditory spectral resolution and neurocognitive …

TN Tamati, C Ray, KJ Vasil, DB Pisoni… - Journal of the …, 2020 - thieme-connect.com
Background Postlingually deafened adult cochlear implant (CI) users routinely display large
individual differences in the ability to recognize and understand speech, especially in …

A site-selection strategy based on polarity sensitivity for cochlear implants: effects on spectro-temporal resolution and speech perception

T Goehring, A Archer-Boyd, JM Deeks… - Journal of the …, 2019 - Springer
Thresholds of asymmetric pulses presented to cochlear implant (CI) listeners depend on
polarity in a way that differs across subjects and electrodes. It has been suggested that lower …

Hybrid optogenetic and electrical stimulation for greater spatial resolution and temporal fidelity of cochlear activation

AC Thompson, AK Wise, WL Hart… - Journal of Neural …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Compared to electrical stimulation, optogenetic stimulation has the potential to
improve the spatial precision of neural activation in neuroprostheses, but it requires intense …

Music training can improve music and speech perception in pediatric Mandarin-speaking cochlear implant users

X Cheng, Y Liu, Y Shu, DD Tao, B Wang… - Trends in …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Due to limited spectral resolution, cochlear implants (CIs) do not convey pitch information
very well. Pitch cues are important for perception of music and tonal language; it is possible …

Optical stimulation of neural tissue

RT Richardson, MR Ibbotson… - Healthcare …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Electrical stimulation has been used for decades in devices such as pacemakers, cochlear
implants and more recently for deep brain and retinal stimulation and electroceutical …

Electrophysiological assessment of temporal envelope processing in cochlear implant users

R Gransier, RP Carlyon, J Wouters - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Cochlear-implant (CI) users rely on temporal envelope modulations (TEMs) to understand
speech, and clinical outcomes depend on the accuracy with which these TEMs are encoded …

Speech recognition with cochlear implants as a function of the number of channels: Effects of electrode placement

KA Berg, JH Noble, BM Dawant, RT Dwyer… - The Journal of the …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
This study investigated the effects of cochlear implant (CI) electrode array type and scalar
location on the number of channels available to CI recipients for maximum speech …