This article describes issues concerning music perception with cochlear implants, discusses
why music perception is usually poor in cochlear implant users, reviews relevant data, and …

Cochlear Limited (Cochlear™) released the fourth-generation cochlear implant system,
Nucleus® Freedom™, in 2005. Freedom is based on 25 years of experience in cochlear …

The aims of this paper are to (i) provide a brief history of cochlear implants;(ii) present a
status report on the current state of implant engineering and the levels of speech …

Cochlear implantation is a life-changing intervention for people with a severe hearing
impairment [1]. For most cochlear implant (CI) users, speech intelligibility is satisfactory in …

Goal: Advances in computational models of biological systems and artificial neural networks
enable rapid virtual prototy** of neuroprostheses, accelerating innovation in the field …

Objectives: A postlingually implanted adult typically develops hearing with an intact auditory
system, followed by periods of deafness (or near deafness) and adaptation to the implant …

Cochlear implants (CIs) have proven to be successful at restoring the sensation of hearing in
people who suffer from profound sensorineural hearing loss. CI users generally achieve …

This volume constitutes the Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Hearing
(ISH), held from 15 to 19 June 2015 in Groningen, The Netherlands. This meeting continued …

In the n-of-m strategy, the signal is processed through m bandpass filters from which only the
n maximum envelope amplitudes are selected for stimulation. While this maximum selection …

Bilateral cochlear implant (BCI) users only have very limited spatial hearing abilities. Speech
coding strategies transmit interaural level differences (ILDs) but in a distorted manner …