Cochlear Implants

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A 'top down' or 'cognitive neuroscience' approach to cochlear implant designs and fittings. 
  • A Binaural Cochlear Implant Sound Coding Strategy Inspired by the Contralateral Medial Olivocochlear Reflex. 
  • A Prospective Study of Pain From Magnetic Resonance Imaging With Cochlear Implant Magnets In Situ. 
  • A comparison of adaptive psychometric procedures based on the theory of optimal experiments and bayesian techniques: implications for cochlear implant testing. 
  • A model of educational resource use by children with cochlear implants. 
  • Acoustic model investigation of a multiple carrier frequency algorithm for encoding fine frequency structure: implications for cochlear implants. 
  • Actions from thoughts. 
  • Adverse events associated with Bonebridge and Osia bone conduction implant devices. 
  • An attempt to improve bilateral cochlear implants by increasing the distance between electrodes and providing complementary information to the two ears. 
  • Assessing the pitch structure associated with multiple rates and places for cochlear implant users. 
  • AzBio Speech Understanding Performance in Quiet and Noise in High Performing Cochlear Implant Users. 
  • Better speech recognition with cochlear implants. 
  • Bilateral cochlear implants controlled by a single speech processor. 
  • Bilaterally Combined Electric and Acoustic Hearing in Mandarin-Speaking Listeners: The Population With Poor Residual Hearing. 
  • Binaural advantages in using a cochlear implant for adults with profound unilateral hearing loss. 
  • Clinical and psychosocial risk factors of hearing outcome in older adults with cochlear implants. 
  • Cochlear implant outcome is not influenced by the choice of ear. 
  • Cochlear implant studies at Research Triangle Institute and Duke University Medical Center. 
  • Cochlear implantation in a patient after removal of an acoustic neuroma. The implications of magnetic resonance imaging with gadolinium on patient management. 
  • Cochlear implantation in patients with cochlear malformations. 
  • Cochlear implants matching the prosthesis to the brain and facilitating desired plastic changes in brain function. 
  • Cochlear implants: a remarkable past and a brilliant future. 
  • Cochlear implants: current designs and future possibilities. 
  • Cochlear implants: some likely next steps. 
  • Coding strategies for multichannel cochlear prostheses. 
  • Communication and Healthcare: Self-Reports of People with Hearing Loss in Primary Care Settings. 
  • Comparative studies of speech processing strategies for cochlear implants. 
  • Comparison of electrode discrimination, pitch ranking, and pitch scaling data in postlingually deafened adult cochlear implant subjects. 
  • Control of speech and voice in cochlear implant patients. 
  • Cost Effectiveness of Childhood Cochlear Implantation and Deaf Education in Nicaragua: A Disability Adjusted Life Year Model. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of CI in developing countries. 
  • Cost-utility analysis of the cochlear implant in children. 
  • Design and evaluation of a continuous interleaved sampling (CIS) processing strategy for multichannel cochlear implants. 
  • Design for a simplified cochlear implant system. 
  • Development and Validation of the Cochlear Implant Surgical Competency Assessment Instrument. 
  • Early literacy gains in children with cochlear implants. 
  • Effects of Electrical Stimulation in the Inferior Colliculus on Frequency Discrimination by Rhesus Monkeys and Implications for the Auditory Midbrain Implant. 
  • Effects of central nervous system residua on cochlear implant results in children deafened by meningitis. 
  • Effects of stimulus level on electrode-place discrimination in human subjects with cochlear implants. 
  • Electric charge requirements of pediatric cochlear implant recipients enrolled in the Childhood Development After Cochlear Implantation study. 
  • Evaluation of MRI compatibility of the modified nucleus multichannel auditory brainstem and cochlear implants. 
  • Evaluation of different choices of n in an n of m processor for cochlear implants. 
  • Expanding Access: Cost-effectiveness of Cochlear Implantation and Deaf Education in Asia. 
  • Expediting the identification of impaired channels in cochlear implants via analysis of speech-based confusion matrices. 
  • Failure and Revision Surgery After Cochlear Implantation in the Adult Population: A 10-year Single-institution Retrospective and Systematic Review of the Literature. 
  • Finite element analysis of bioelectric phenomena. 
  • GDP Matters: Cost Effectiveness of Cochlear Implantation and Deaf Education in Sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Getting a decent (but sparse) signal to the brain for users of cochlear implants. 
  • Hearing Loss in Adults. 
  • Hearing-in-noise benefits after bilateral simultaneous cochlear implantation continue to improve 4 years after implantation. 
  • How the Past Shapes the Future and What to Do About It: A Discussion at CI 2021 Virtual With Panelists: Teresa Caraway, Ph.D., C.C.C.-S.L.P.; Cliff Megerian, M.D.; Debara Tucci, M.D., M.S., M.B.A.; Peter Thomas, J.D.; Jason Wigand, Au.D. 
  • Impact of cochlear implants on the functional health status of older adults. 
  • Importance of patient and processor variables in determining outcomes with cochlear implants. 
  • Intelligibility in speech maskers with a binaural cochlear implant sound coding strategy inspired by the contralateral medial olivocochlear reflex. 
  • Investigating perceptual features of electrode stimulation via a multidimensional scaling paradigm. 
  • Investigating the effects of stimulus duration and context on pitch perception by cochlear implant users. 
  • Lateral Wall Electrodes Increase the Rate of Postactivation Nonauditory Percepts. 
  • Lateralization of virtual sound sources with a binaural cochlear-implant sound coding strategy inspired by the medial olivocochlear reflex. 
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 1.5 Tesla With a Cochlear Implant Magnet in Place: Image Quality and Usability. 
  • Mandarin Chinese tone identification in cochlear implants: predictions from acoustic models. 
  • Measuring Success: Cost-Effectiveness and Expanding Access to Cochlear Implantation. 
  • Multicenter US Clinical Trial With an Electric-Acoustic Stimulation (EAS) System in Adults: Final Outcomes. 
  • Neuronal Development of Hearing and Language: Cochlear Implants and Critical Periods. 
  • New processing strategies for multichannel cochlear prostheses. 
  • New processing strategies in cochlear implantation. 
  • Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae meningitis complicated by hearing loss in a 9-year-old HIV-infected boy. 
  • Osseointegrated implants for auricular prostheses: An alternative to autologous repair. 
  • Parameter tuning of time-frequency masking algorithms for reverberant artifact removal within the cochlear implant stimulus. 
  • Partial deafness cochlear implantation (PDCI) and electric-acoustic stimulation (EAS). 
  • Patients utilizing a hearing aid and a cochlear implant: speech perception and localization. 
  • Postoperative infection in cochlear implant patients. 
  • Predicting dynamic range and intensity discrimination for electrical pulse-train stimuli using a stochastic auditory nerve model: the effects of stimulus noise. 
  • Predicting the threshold of single-pulse electrical stimuli using a stochastic auditory nerve model: the effects of noise. 
  • Predictors of Postoperative Electrode Deactivation Among Adult Cochlear Implantees. 
  • Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance. 
  • Programmatic challenges in obtaining and confirming the pneumococcal vaccination status of cochlear implant recipients. 
  • Provincial Variation of Cochlear Implantation Surgical Volumes and Cost in Canada. 
  • Pseudospontaneous activity: stochastic independence of auditory nerve fibers with electrical stimulation. 
  • Psychophysical threshold variability in cochlear implant subjects. 
  • Quality of Life and Cost-Effectiveness of Cochlear Implants: A Narrative Review. 
  • Quality of life in hearing-impaired adults: the role of cochlear implants and hearing aids. 
  • Rehabilitation and Psychosocial Determinants of Cochlear Implant Outcomes in Older Adults. 
  • Remote programming of cochlear implants: a telecommunications model. 
  • Revision cochlear implant surgery in children: the Johns Hopkins experience. 
  • Roles of the Contralateral Efferent Reflex in Hearing Demonstrated with Cochlear Implants. 
  • Round window electrocochleography and speech perception outcomes in adult cochlear implant subjects: comparison with audiometric and biographical information. 
  • Spectrum of immune-mediated inner ear disease and cochlear implant results. 
  • Stream segregation on a single electrode as a function of pulse rate in cochlear implant listeners. 
  • Streamlining the Cochlear Implant Evaluation: Utility of Community Audiometry in Cochlear Implant Candidacy Assessment. 
  • Surgical factors in pediatric cochlear implantation and their early effects on electrode activation and functional outcomes. 
  • Temporal pattern discrimination and speech recognition under electrical stimulation. 
  • The Modern Cochlear Implant: A Triumph of Biomedical Engineering and the First Substantial Restoration of Human Sense Using a Medical Intervention. 
  • The effect of frequency estimation on speech recognition using an acoustic model of a cochlear implant. 
  • The effects of reverberant self- and overlap-masking on speech recognition in cochlear implant listeners. 
  • The future of cochlear implants. 
  • The future of implantable neuroprosthetic devices: ethical considerations. 
  • The surprising performance of present-day cochlear implants. 
  • Three-month results with bilateral cochlear implants. 
  • Timing of cochlear implantation and parents' global ratings of children's health and development. 
  • Toward better representations of sound with cochlear implants. 
  • Tracking development of speech recognition: longitudinal data from hierarchical assessments in the Childhood Development after Cochlear Implantation Study. 
  • Trends in educational placement and cost-benefit considerations in children with cochlear implants. 
  • Trends in rehabilitation after cochlear implantation. 
  • Two new directions in speech processor design for cochlear implants. 
  • Using channel-specific statistical models to detect reverberation in cochlear implant stimuli. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Cohen, Seth Morris, Professor of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences, Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
  • Eliades, Steven Jeffrey, Associate Professor of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences, Neurobiology
  • Mainsah, Boyla Octavie, Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Wilson, Blake Shaw, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences, Pratt School of Engineering
  • Woldorff, Marty G., Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke Science & Society