O'LEARY, STEPHEN; Irlicht, Lawrence S.; BRUCE, IAN; White, Mark; Clark, Graeme M.
(
1997)
Cochlear implant patients' perception of sound is derived via electrical pulses arising from an electrode array. Chosen aspects of the acoustic spectrum are coded via a stimulation pattern designed according to some sound coding algorithm. Thus, a patients' ability to discriminate between sounds, and in turn their understanding, is directly related to their ability to differentiate between the patterns of electrical stimulation which code various sounds.