title: Sound code for cochlear implants.
abstract: This is a review of how various commercially available cochlear prostheses encode speech and complex tones. Arguments in favor of temporal coding through relatively few channels are presented. Advantages of analogue over pulsatile stimuli are explained. Parameters responsible for perception of vowels, consonants, musical pitch and loudness are didactically analyzed. Active rehabilitation is considered an integral part of the coding effort.
authors.affiliation: Division of Otolaryngology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Schwarz
mesh_terms: D003054:Cochlear Implants / Q000534:rehabilitation; D006309:Hearing; D006801:Humans; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D013016:Sound; D013018:Sound Spectrography