Overview

Better Hearing with Cochlear Implants: Studies at the Research Triangle Institute provides the reader with a critical insight into the field and answers to the question "Why did they do that?", as well as how the field of cochlear implants evolved.

Audience

Primary Subject: Audiology / General
Secondary Subject: Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery / Otology
Audience Level: Professional/Textbook - 90 Days

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface by Blake Wilson
Preface by Michael Dorman

1. Overview

Part I: Design and Evaluation of Novel Processing Strategies
Introduction
2. Comparison of analog and pulsatile coding strategies for multichannel cochlear prostheses (QPR 3:1)
3. New levels of speech reception with cochlear implants (QPR 3:2)
4. Evaluation of alternative implementations of the continuous interleaved sampling (CIS), interleaved pulses (IP), and peak picker (PP) processing strategies (QPR 3:3)
5. Comparison of compressed analog (CA) and continuous interleaved sampling (CIS) processors in tests with seven Ineraid subjects (QPR 3:4)
6. Evaluation of other promising strategies (QPR 3:10)
7. Completion of “poor performance” series (QPR 3:12)
8. Auditory brainstem implant (ABI) studies (QPR 3:12)
9. Virtual channel interleaved sampling (VCIS) processors: initial studies with subject SR2 (QPR 4:1)
10. Identification of virtual channels on the basis of pitch (QPR 4:3)
11. Further evaluation of VCIS processors (QPR 4:6)
12. Design for an inexpensive but nonetheless highly effective cochlear implant system (FR 4)
13. 22 electrode percutaneous study: results for the first five subjects (QPR 5:3)

PART II: Electrical stimulation on both sides with bilateral cochlear implants
Introduction
14. Speech reception with bilateral cochlear implants (QPR 6:4)
15. Sensitivities to interaural timing differences (QPR 7:4)
16. Pitch ranking of electrodes for 22 subjects with bilateral cochlear implants (QPR 7:10)

PART III: Combined electric and acoustic stimulation (EAS) of the auditory system
Introduction
17. Psychophysical studies relating to combined EAS (QPR 6:11)
18. Speech reception with combined EAS (QPR 7:3)

PART IV: Representations of temporal information with cochlear implants
Introduction
19. Temporal representations with cochlear implants (summary in FR 4 of sections in QPRs 4:7 and 4:11)
20. Strategies for the repair of deficits in temporal representations with cochlear implants (QPR 4:9)
21. High rate studies, subject SR2 (QPR 5:7)

References
Appendices
Appendix 1: Partners in research
Appendix 2: Topics and authors for the RTI progress reports
Appendix 3: Publications resulting from the RTI projects
Appendix 4: Contents of the RTI progress reports sorted by topic

About The Authors

Blake Wilson, PhD

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Michael Dorman, PhD

Michael F. Dorman received his Ph.D. in Experimental Child and Developmental Psychology (with a Linguistics minor) from the University of Connecticut in 1971. A Fellow of the Acoustical Society of American, he is currently Professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science and the program in Linguistics at Arizona State University. Professor Dorman is the author of over 150 publications in areas including (i) speech perception by infants, adults, hearing-impaired listeners and listeners fit with cochlear implants, (ii) cortical lateralization of function and (iii) neural plasticity. His work on cochlear implants has been supported continuously by the NIH since 1989.

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