Building the bionic ear

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    Author
    Clark, Graeme M.
    Date
    2000
    Source Title
    Industrial Physicist
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Clark, Graeme
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    Document Type
    Journal Article
    Citations
    Clark, G. M. (2000). Building the bionic ear. Industrial Physicist, 6(1), 12-15.
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    Open Access
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/27571
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    This is a publisher’s version of an article published in Industrial Physicist 2000 published by American Institute of Physics. This version is reproduced with permission from American Institute of Physics. http://www.aip.org/tip
    Abstract
    When I began my cochlear-implant research in 1967, one could do nothing to help profoundly deaf people hear. In normal hearing, hair cells in the cochlea, the snail-shaped inner ear, transduce sound vibrations into electrical signals. These signals produce patterns of electrical responses in the auditory pathways that convey the frequency and intensity of the sound to the brain. The profoundly deaf, however, have lost their hair cells, so even amplifying sound with a hearing aid fails to transmit information that the brain can interpret as sound.
    Keywords
    cochlear implants; bionic ear; multiple electrode; receiver-stimulator; children

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