A functioning multichannel auditory nerve stimulator. A preliminary report on two human volunteers.
This paper is a brief progress report on our work with two volunteers, each with 4 electrodes placed in his auditory nerve. We are performing stimulation studies to find out if multielectrode stimulation is more effective as a communication aid than single-electrode stimulation, and to gain insights on stimulus coding of environmental sound using sophisticated digital signal processing techniques.
D001299:Audiometry; D001309:Auditory Threshold / Q000502:physiology; D003051:Cochlea / Q000601:surgery; D003638:Deafness / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D004567:Electrodes, Implanted; D006801:Humans; D008144:Loudness Perception / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D010897:Pitch Discrimination / Q000502:physiology; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D013016:Sound; D000159:Vestibulocochlear Nerve / Q000502:physiology* / Q000601:surgery