Tissue–electronics interfaces: from implantable devices to engineered tissues

R Feiner, T Dvir - Nature Reviews Materials, 2017 - nature.com
Biomedical electronic devices are interfaced with the human body to extract precise medical
data and to interfere with tissue function by providing electrical stimuli. In this Review, we …

Trends in cochlear implants

FG Zeng - Trends in amplification, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
More than 60,000 people worldwide use cochlear implants as a means to restore functional
hearing. Although individual performance variability is still high, an average implant user …

Efficient auditory coding

EC Smith, MS Lewicki - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
The auditory neural code must serve a wide range of auditory tasks that require great
sensitivity in time and frequency and be effective over the diverse array of sounds present in …

[BOOK][B] Children with hearing loss: Develo** listening and talking, birth to six

EB Cole, C Flexer - 2019 - books.google.com
The fourth edition of Children With Hearing Loss: Develo** Listening and Talking, Birth to
Six is a dynamic compilation of important information for the facilitation of spoken language …

The functional performance of the Argus II retinal prosthesis

HC Stronks, G Dagnelie - Expert review of medical devices, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Visual prostheses are devices to treat profound vision loss by stimulating nerve cells
anywhere along the visual pathway, typically with electrical pulses. The Argus® II implant …

Auditory-nerve responses to varied inter-phase gap and phase duration of the electric pulse stimulus as predictors for neuronal degeneration

D Ramekers, H Versnel, SB Strahl, EM Smeets… - Journal of the …, 2014 - Springer
After severe hair cell loss, secondary degeneration of spiral ganglion cells (SGCs) is
observed—a gradual process that spans years in humans but only takes weeks in guinea …

Ensuring language acquisition for deaf children: What linguists can do

T Humphries, P Kushalnagar, G Mathur, DJ Napoli… - Language, 2014 - muse.jhu.edu
Parents of small deaf children need guidance on constructing home and school
environments that affect normal language acquisition. They often turn to physicians and …

A multichannel semicircular canal neural prosthesis using electrical stimulation to restore 3-D vestibular sensation

CC Della Santina, AA Migliaccio… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bilateral loss of vestibular sensation can be disabling. Those afflicted suffer illusory visual
field movement during head movements, chronic disequilibrium and postural instability due …

Comparison of speech recognition and localization performance in bilateral and unilateral cochlear implant users matched on duration of deafness and age at …

CC Dunn, RS Tyler, S Oakley, BJ Gantz… - Ear and Hearing, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: The purpose of this investigation was to compare speech recognition and
localization performance of subjects who wear bilateral cochlear implants (CICI) with …

Emergent literacy in kindergartners with cochlear implants

S Nittrouer, A Caldwell, JH Lowenstein, E Tarr… - Ear and …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Objective: A key ingredient to academic success is being able to read. Deaf individuals have
historically failed to develop literacy skills comparable with those of their normal-hearing …