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Author: Busby, Peter × Start date: 1980 × Type: Journal Item × Subject: deafness ×

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    The perception of electrodes by cochlear implant patients who became deaf early in life [Abstract]
    BUSBY, PETER ; Clark, Graeme M. ( 1994)
    Two separate studies measuring the perception of differences in site of electrode stimulation were conducted with cochlear implant patients who became deaf early in life. The multiple-electrode prosthesis manufactured by Cochlear Pty. Limited was used. Two of the possible mechanisms for the discrimination of different electrodes are pitch and loudness. The first study measured the discrimination of different electrodes using two procedures which minimised the influences of loudness cues on performance. In the first procedure, the stimulation patterns were symmetric sweeps across electrodes. The reference stimuli were apical-basal trajectories and the comparison stimuli were basal-apical trajectories. The electric stimulation levels were the same in the reference and comparison stimuli because the same electrodes were used in the trajectories. In the second procedure, the stimulation patterns used randomised variations in electric stimulation levels on the different electrodes. By randomly varying the loudness of the stimuli in a discrimination task, the patient is required to listen for more salient cues such as pitch. Both procedures gave comparable results. The second study was concerned with the estimation of order in percepts for stimulation on the different electrodes along the array which was related to the tonotopic order of the cochlea. Approximately half of the early-deafened patients tested revealed a tonotopic order in percepts which was comparable to that obtained from postlinguistically deafened adults.
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    A clinical report on speech production of cochlear implant users [Abstract]
    Dawson, P. ; Blamey, P. ; Dettman, S. ; Rowland, L. ; Barker, E. ; Tobey, E. ; Busby, P. ; Cowan, R. ; Clark, Graeme M. ( 1994)
    Speech production results are reported for a group of 15 children, adolescents and prelinguistically deafened adults implanted with the 22-electrode cochlear implant. Age at implantation ranged from 5 years to 20 years and implant experience ranged from 1 year to 4 years, 7 months. On a speech intelligibility test using sentences seven implant users improved significantly over time. Mean group performance (n = 11) improved from 18% preoperatively to 43% postoperatively. Similarly on a test of articulation, eight implant users improved significantly over time and the group mean postoperative performance (n = 11) exceeded the preoperative performance (55% compared to 38%). This group effect was significant for consonants and blends but was nonsignificant for vowels. Improvements occurred for front, middle and back consonants, for stops, nasals, fricatives and glides and for voiceless and voiced consonants. Three implant users showed no significant gain on either test. The results suggest complex relationships between speech production performance and sensory information provided by a multichannel implant.