title: Cochlear implantation: past and present.
abstract: Experimental stimulation of the ear started at the end of the 18th century with Volta. The first electrode implantation was performed by Djouno and Eyries in 1957. This was followed by intensive cochlear implant research at first in California, then all over the world. During the past 2 decades there has been an evolution from single to high performance multichannel implants with the development of more sophisticated speech coding strategies.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Desloovere
mesh_terms: D019929:Cochlear Implantation / Q000266:history* / Q000295:instrumentation; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans