ABSTRACT: Over the years, numerous technological advances have taken place in regard to the internal and external components of cochlear implant systems. Such advances include improvements in receiver and electrode design and placement, improvements in external component technology that have brought about downsizing and increased efficiency of externally worn speech processors, and improvements...

Cochlear implants are electronic devices intended to restore the sense of hearing in deaf people by direct electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve fibres that are still present in the deaf inner ear. Unfortunately, the clinical outcome is not very predictable. In this study a computational model is presented that can predict the neural response to an arbitrary cochlear implant. It first co...

Speech perception and speech production are two related complex processes. The success of cochlear implant can be evaluated only by studying both the perception and production. The present study compares the perception and production of the phonologically significant contrasts (vowels) of the children with cochlear implants with those of age matched normal hearing children. The vowel perception...

William F. House was a pioneer in the evolving field of cochlear implants and auditory brainstem implants. Because of his vision, innovation and perseverance, the way was paved for future clinicians and researchers to carry on the work and advance a field that has been dedicated to serving adults and children with severe to profound hearing loss. Several of William House's contributions are hig...

There can be wide variation in the level of oral/aural language ability that prelingually hearing-impaired children develop after cochlear implantation. Automatic perceptual processing mechanisms have come under increasing scrutiny in attempts to explain this variation. Using mismatch negativity methods, this study explored associations between auditory sensory memory mechanisms and verbal work...

Over the past few years, much attention has focused upon whether sign language, being a visual communication method, is compatible with the cochlear implant, an auditory aid. A substantial proportion of children with cochlear implants utilize sign language. Recent pediatric implantees in the U.S. are about equally divided between those who use Oral Communication (OC) and those who use Total Com...

Cochlear implantation has been performed for 16 years by investigators at Semmelweis University. During this period, different types of cochlear implants have been used and, in 30% of cases, hearing was observed to be restored in the nonimplanted ear. In addition to contralateral hearing improvement, significant improvement was observed in the caloric responsiveness of the nonoperated labyrinth...