In an earlier post we helped answer the question “What is sound?” by showing that sound is basically lots of molecules in the air bouncing against each other. Today we’ll explore how a cochlear implant turns sound into the envelope and fine structure: information that the brain can understand.
You might know that a cochlear implant sends electrical signals to the cochlea, but have you ever wondered where they go from there? They go straight into the brain! How the Brain Hears As we’ve shown in our post showing pictures of the cochlea, the cochlea is filled with thousands of nerve cells. Each of these cells
What are Assistive Listening Devices? The answer is easy: it’s a device that helps a hearing implant recipient to hear certain sounds by connecting directly with the audio processor as opposed to using the built-in microphone. Find out more about assistive listening devices in this article.
Here at The MED-EL Blog we’ve talked a lot about cochlear implants, but there’s far more to hearing implants than just CIs. Another type of hearing implant is a middle ear implant–but what’s a middle ear implant all about, and how does it work? The Middle Ear As the name suggests, a middle ear implant is implanted
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