Children with profound deafness who receive a cochlear implant had as much as five times the risk of having delays in areas of working memory, controlled attention, planning and conceptual learning as children with normal ...
May 22, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—A new study from a UT Dallas researcher demonstrates the importance of considering developmental differences when creating programs for cochlear implants in infants.
May 19, 2014
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(HealthDay)—For patients with Ménière's disease (MD), cochlear implantation (CI) is associated with significant improvement in hearing performance, according to a study published online May 1 in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head ...
May 2, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—Over the past two decades, people living with severe-to-profound hearing loss have benefited from cochlear implants—surgically implanted electronic devices that provide a sense of sound. More recently, ...
Mar 28, 2014
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Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed a prototype system-on-chip (SoC) that could make possible a fully implanted cochlear implant. ...
Feb 10, 2014
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Children learning to speak depend on functional hearing. So-called cochlear implants allow deaf people to hear again by stimulating the auditory nerve directly. Researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) are ...
Dec 2, 2013
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Penn State Brandywine Assistant Professor of Psychology Daniela Martin, of Media, is on the frontline of significant, unique research. With the first generation of cochlear implant recipients reaching adulthood, Martin and ...
Nov 27, 2013
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Cochlear implants allow adults who have become profoundly deaf to recover the ability to understand speech. However, recovery differs between individuals. Activating the visual regions of the brain has proved essential to ...
Nov 8, 2013
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A new imaging device will be launched on Macquarie University's campus today, helping researchers in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD) and HEARing Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) better understand ...
Oct 30, 2013
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For many, music is a universal language that unites people when words cannot. But for those who use cochlear implants—technology that allows deaf and hard of hearing people to comprehend speech—hearing music remains extremely ...
Oct 9, 2013
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