Workshop on the Auditory Basis of Speech Perception Keele University, UK July 15-19, 1996

Cochlear Implant Speech Processing for Severely-to-Profoundly Deaf People

Graeme M. Clark

The Department of Otolaryngology, The University of Melbourne and the Bionic Ear Institute, Melbourne, Australia

A cochlear implant is a device which restores some hearing in severely-to-profoundly deaf people when the organ of Corti has not developed or is destroyed by disease or injury to such an extent no comparable hearing can be obtained with a hearing aid. When the organ of Corti is severely malfunctioning or absent, sound vibrations cannot be transduced into temporo-spatial patterns of action potentials along the auditory nerve for the coding of frequency and intensity. As a result, a hearing aid which amplifies sound, is of little or no use.

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Bibliographic reference.  Clark, Graeme M. (1996): "Cochlear implant speech processing for severely-to-profoundly deaf people", In ABSP-1996, 23-30.