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Blake Shaw Wilson

Blake Shaw Wilson

Adjunct Professor in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
blake.wilson@duke.edu
2410 Wrightwood Ave., Durham, NC 27705
2410 Wrightwood Ave., Durham, NC 27705

Selected Publications

The effect of cochlear implant pulse phase duration on stimulus rankings according to pitch.

Journal Article JASA Express Lett · February 1, 2026 For cochlear implant recipients with deeply inserted electrode arrays, pitch confusions are more prevalent among apical electrodes than among middle and basal electrodes. It was hypothesized that changing phase duration (PD) affects pitch evoked by electro ... Full text Link to item Cite

Development of Measures for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Stigma: Introduction to the Special Supplement on Stigma Measurement Tools.

Journal Article Ear Hear · September 2024 People who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing (d/DHH) often experience stigma and discrimination in their daily lives. Qualitative research describing their lived experiences has provided useful, in-depth insights into the pervasiveness of stigma. Quantitative ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Towards universal access: A review of global efforts in ear and hearing care.

Journal Article Hear Res · April 2024 Hearing loss affects 1.6 billion people worldwide and disproportionately affects those in low- and middle-income countries. Despite being largely preventable or treatable, ear and hearing conditions result in significant and lifelong morbidity such as dela ... Full text Link to item Cite

Priorities for hearing loss prevention and estimates of global cause-specific burdens of hearing loss: a systematic rapid review.

Journal Article Lancet Glob Health · February 2024 BACKGROUND: Hearing loss affects approximately 1·6 billion individuals worldwide. Many cases are preventable. We aimed to estimate the annual number of new hearing loss cases that could be attributed to meningitis, otitis media, congenital rubella syndrome ... Full text Link to item Cite

Language and Literacy Skills in Children with Cochlear Implants: Past and Present Findings

Chapter · January 1, 2024 The design and performance of the present-day cochlear implants are described, as are the best uses of those implants and possibilities for improvements in design and performance. A detailed exposition is presented, to indicate the many considerations that ... Full text Cite

The Impact of Hearing Loss and Its Treatment on Health-Related Quality of Life Utility: a Systematic Review with Meta-analysis.

Journal Article J Gen Intern Med · February 2023 BACKGROUND: Hearing loss significantly impacts health-related quality of life (QoL), yet the effects of current treatments on QoL utility remain uncertain. Our objective was to describe the impact of untreated and treated hearing loss on QoL utility to inf ... Full text Link to item Cite

Validation of the Decision model of the Burden of Hearing loss Across the Lifespan (DeciBHAL) in Chile, India, and Nigeria.

Journal Article EClinicalMedicine · August 2022 BACKGROUND: There is no published decision model for informing hearing health care resource allocation across the lifespan in low- and middle-income countries. We sought to validate the Decision model of the Burden of Hearing loss Across the Lifespan Inter ... Full text Link to item Cite

Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence in Otolaryngology and the Communication Sciences.

Journal Article J Assoc Res Otolaryngol · June 2022 Use of artificial intelligence (AI) is a burgeoning field in otolaryngology and the communication sciences. A virtual symposium on the topic was convened from Duke University on October 26, 2020, and was attended by more than 170 participants worldwide. Th ... Full text Link to item Cite

Development and validation of DeciBHAL-US: A novel microsimulation model of hearing loss across the lifespan in the United States.

Journal Article EClinicalMedicine · February 2022 BACKGROUND: Hearing loss affects over 50% of people in the US across their lifespan and there is a lack of decision modeling frameworks to inform optimal hearing healthcare delivery. Our objective was to develop and validate a microsimulation model of hear ... Full text Link to item Cite

Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to transform hearing healthcare and research

Journal Article Nature Machine Intelligence · October 1, 2021 The advances in artificial intelligence that are transforming many fields have yet to make an impact in hearing. Hearing healthcare continues to rely on a labour-intensive service model that fails to provide access to the majority of those in need, while h ... Full text Cite

Evidence gaps in economic analyses of hearing healthcare: A systematic review.

Journal Article EClinicalMedicine · May 2021 BACKGROUND: Hearing loss is a common and costly medical condition. This systematic review sought to identify evidence gaps in published model-based economic analyses addressing hearing loss to inform model development for an ongoing Lancet Commission. METH ... Full text Link to item Cite

Challenges of the Deaf and Hearing Impaired in the Masked World of COVID-19.

Journal Article Indian J Community Med · 2021 Difficulties of the hearing impaired have increased due to COVID-19, leading to lack of inclusiveness along with the breakdown of their mental, physical, and social health. The study objective was to assess the challenges faced by the deaf and hearing-impa ... Full text Link to item Cite

Lateralization of virtual sound sources with a binaural cochlear-implant sound coding strategy inspired by the medial olivocochlear reflex.

Journal Article Hear Res · August 2019 Many users of bilateral cochlear implants (BiCIs) localize sound sources less accurately than do people with normal hearing. This may be partly due to using two independently functioning CIs with fixed compression, which distorts and/or reduces interaural ... Full text Link to item Cite

Neuronal Development of Hearing and Language: Cochlear Implants and Critical Periods.

Journal Article Annu Rev Neurosci · July 8, 2019 The modern cochlear implant (CI) is the most successful neural prosthesis developed to date. CIs provide hearing to the profoundly hearing impaired and allow the acquisition of spoken language in children born deaf. Results from studies enabled by the CI h ... Full text Link to item Cite

Binaural advantages in using a cochlear implant for adults with profound unilateral hearing loss.

Journal Article Acta Otolaryngol · February 2019 BACKGROUND: Recent studies of cochlear implants (CIs) in profound unilateral hearing loss (UHL) patients have demonstrated a restoration of some binaural hearing. AIMS/OBJECTIVES: The objective was to evaluate three possible advantages of binaural hearing ... Full text Link to item Cite

Bilaterally Combined Electric and Acoustic Hearing in Mandarin-Speaking Listeners: The Population With Poor Residual Hearing.

Journal Article Trends Hear · 2018 The hearing loss criterion for cochlear implant candidacy in mainland China is extremely stringent (bilateral severe to profound hearing loss), resulting in few patients with substantial residual hearing in the nonimplanted ear. The main objective of the c ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Brief History of the Cochlear Implant and Related Treatments

Chapter · January 1, 2018 The first cochlear implants (CIs) provided an awareness of environmental sounds and some assistance in speechreading (including lipreading), but no recognition of speech was possible with the CI alone. In contrast, modern CIs enable high levels of speech r ... Full text Cite

Stimulation for the Return of Hearing

Chapter · January 1, 2018 Highly useful hearing, including speech reception without any visual cues, can be reinstated or produced for the first time with a cochlear implant—a device that bypasses damaged or missing sensory hair cells in the cochleas of deaf or severely hearing-imp ... Full text Cite

Global hearing health care: new findings and perspectives.

Journal Article Lancet · December 2, 2017 In 2015, approximately half a billion people had disabling hearing loss, about 6·8% of the world's population. These numbers are substantially higher than estimates published before 2013, and point to the growing importance of hearing loss and global heari ... Full text Link to item Cite

The cochlear implant and possibilities for narrowing the remaining gaps between prosthetic and normal hearing.

Journal Article World J Otorhinolaryngol Head Neck Surg · December 2017 BACKGROUND: The cochlear implant has become the standard of care for severe or worse losses in hearing and indeed has produced the first substantial restoration of a lost or absent human sense using a medical intervention. However, the devices are not perf ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Intelligibility in speech maskers with a binaural cochlear implant sound coding strategy inspired by the contralateral medial olivocochlear reflex.

Journal Article Hear Res · May 2017 We have recently proposed a binaural cochlear implant (CI) sound processing strategy inspired by the contralateral medial olivocochlear reflex (the MOC strategy) and shown that it improves intelligibility in steady-state noise (Lopez-Poveda et al., 2016, E ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Modern Cochlear Implant: A Triumph of Biomedical Engineering and the First Substantial Restoration of Human Sense Using a Medical Intervention.

Journal Article IEEE Pulse · 2017 Even as recently as the mid-1980s, many experts in otology and auditory science thought that restoration of useful hearing with crude and pervasive electrical stimulation of the cochlea was a fool's dream. The esteemed Prof. Rainer Klinke from Frankfurt (F ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effects of Electrical Stimulation in the Inferior Colliculus on Frequency Discrimination by Rhesus Monkeys and Implications for the Auditory Midbrain Implant.

Journal Article J Neurosci · May 4, 2016 UNLABELLED: Understanding the relationship between the auditory selectivity of neurons and their contribution to perception is critical to the design of effective auditory brain prosthetics. These prosthetics seek to mimic natural activity patterns to achi ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

A Binaural Cochlear Implant Sound Coding Strategy Inspired by the Contralateral Medial Olivocochlear Reflex.

Journal Article Ear Hear · 2016 OBJECTIVES: In natural hearing, cochlear mechanical compression is dynamically adjusted via the efferent medial olivocochlear reflex (MOCR). These adjustments probably help understanding speech in noisy environments and are not available to the users of cu ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Roles of the Contralateral Efferent Reflex in Hearing Demonstrated with Cochlear Implants.

Journal Article Adv Exp Med Biol · 2016 Our two ears do not function as fixed and independent sound receptors; their functioning is coupled and dynamically adjusted via the contralateral medial olivocochlear efferent reflex (MOCR). The MOCR possibly facilitates speech recognition in noisy enviro ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cost Effectiveness of Childhood Cochlear Implantation and Deaf Education in Nicaragua: A Disability Adjusted Life Year Model.

Journal Article Otol Neurotol · September 2015 INTRODUCTION: Cochlear implantation (CI) is a common intervention for severe-to-profound hearing loss in high-income countries, but is not commonly available to children in low resource environments. Owing in part to the device costs, CI has been assumed t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Getting a decent (but sparse) signal to the brain for users of cochlear implants.

Journal Article Hear Res · April 2015 Featured Publication The challenge in getting a decent signal to the brain for users of cochlear implants (CIs) is described. A breakthrough occurred in 1989 that later enabled most users to understand conversational speech with their restored hearing alone. Subsequent develop ... Full text Link to item Cite

Toward better representations of sound with cochlear implants.

Journal Article Nat Med · October 2013 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

Editorial: Remembering William House, DDS, MD

Other Hearing Journal · February 1, 2013 Full text Cite

Retrospective valuations of intellectual property

Journal Article Journal of Technology Transfer · February 1, 2012 A relatively simple method for ongoing retrospective valuations of intellectual property (IP) for the purpose of setting royalty rates is described. The method uses measureable variables that indicate directly the value of an IP to a licensee over time. Pr ... Full text Cite

Better Hearing with Cochlear Implants: Studies at the Research Triangle Institute

Book · 2012 A review by Prof. Mario Svirsky was published in the journal Ear and Hearing, vol. 35 2014 p. 137 and two additional published reviews are presented at https://www.pluralpublishing.com/publication_hcirrti.htm ... Cite

Les implants cochléaires: un passé remarquable et un brillant avenir

Other Sécurité routière et surdité · 2012 This article is a summary in French of the 2008 article in English by Wilson and Dorman published in Hearing Research. ... Cite

Overview

Chapter · 2012 Cite

Speech perception and sound localization by adults with bilateral cochlear implants

Journal Article Seminars in Hearing · February 28, 2011 Adult patients with bilateral cochlear implants report a significant gain in health-related quality of life relative to having a single cochlear implant. Gains are found in multiple domainsin this article, we focus on hearing and speech understanding. Ther ... Full text Cite

Cochlear implants matching the prosthesis to the brain and facilitating desired plastic changes in brain function.

Journal Article Prog Brain Res · 2011 The cochlear implant (CI) is one of the great success stories of modern medicine. A high level of function is provided for most patients. However, some patients still do not achieve excellent or even good results using the present-day devices. Accumulating ... Full text Link to item Cite

Remote programming of cochlear implants: a telecommunications model.

Journal Article Otol Neurotol · September 2010 OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the effectiveness of remote programming for cochlear implants. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective review of the cochlear implant performance for patients who had undergone mapping and programming of their cochlear implant via remote connection ... Full text Link to item Cite

Partial deafness cochlear implantation (PDCI) and electric-acoustic stimulation (EAS).

Journal Article Cochlear Implants Int · June 2010 The purposes of this paper are to (1) review briefly the experience to date with combined EAS for patients with some residual, low-frequency hearing; and (2) describe the further results that have been obtained with this combination for patients with highe ... Full text Link to item Cite

A summary of the literature on global hearing impairment: current status and priorities for action.

Journal Article Otol Neurotol · January 2010 Featured Publication BACKGROUND: Hearing loss (HL) and deafness are global issues that affect at least 278 million people worldwide. Two thirds of the people who have HL worldwide live in developing countries. Importantly, it is estimated that 50% of this HL can be prevented. ... Full text Link to item Cite

An attempt to improve bilateral cochlear implants by increasing the distance between electrodes and providing complementary information to the two ears.

Journal Article J Am Acad Audiol · January 2010 OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this investigation was to determine if adult bilateral cochlear implant recipients could benefit from using a speech processing strategy in which the input spectrum was interleaved among electrodes across the two implants. DESIGN ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cochlear Implants Principles & Practices

Book · 2009 Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition, this book provides an in-depth discussion on prosthetic restoration of hearing via implantation. ... Cite

Cochlear prosthesis

Chapter · 2009 Cite

Cochlear Prosthesis

Chapter · January 1, 2009 Functional hearing can be restored to patients with sensorineural deafness by means of multichannel electrodes implanted into the cochlea. Electrical stimulation from an implanted receiver bypasses the missing hair cells and excites action potentials direc ... Full text Cite

The design of cochlear implants

Journal Article Cochlear Implants: Principles \& Practices, Second Edition · 2009 Cite

Stimulation for the Return of Hearing

Chapter · January 1, 2009 This chapter focuses on the use of electrical stimulation at the auditory nerve for returning a person from total deafness or a severe hearing loss to useful hearing. The principal cause of hearing loss is damage to or complete destruction of the sensory h ... Full text Cite

Cochlear implants: a remarkable past and a brilliant future.

Journal Article Hear Res · August 2008 Featured Publication The aims of this paper are to (i) provide a brief history of cochlear implants; (ii) present a status report on the current state of implant engineering and the levels of speech understanding enabled by that engineering; (iii) describe limitations of curre ... Full text Link to item Cite

Multicenter U.S. bilateral MED-EL cochlear implantation study: speech perception over the first year of use.

Journal Article Ear Hear · January 2008 OBJECTIVE: Binaural hearing has been shown to support better speech perception in normal-hearing listeners than can be achieved with monaural stimulus presentation, particularly under noisy listening conditions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate wh ... Full text Link to item Cite

Interfacing Sensors With the Nervous System: Lessons From the Development and Success of the Cochlear Implant

Journal Article Sensors Journal, IEEE · 2008 The cochlear implant is the most successful neural prosthesis to date and may serve as a paradigm for the development or further development of other systems to interface sensors with the nervous system, e.g., visual or vestibular prostheses. This paper tr ... Cite

Cochlear implants: current designs and future possibilities.

Journal Article J Rehabil Res Dev · 2008 Featured Publication The cochlear implant is the most successful of all neural prostheses developed to date. It is the most effective prosthesis in terms of restoration of function, and the people who have received a cochlear implant outnumber the recipients of other types of ... Full text Link to item Cite

The surprising performance of present-day cochlear implants.

Journal Article IEEE Trans Biomed Eng · June 2007 Featured Publication The speech reception performance of a recipient of the Clarion CII implant was evaluated with a comprehensive set of tests. The same tests were administered for a group of six subjects with normal hearing. Scores for the implant subject were not different ... Full text Link to item Cite

Design for a simplified cochlear implant system.

Journal Article IEEE Trans Biomed Eng · June 2007 Featured Publication A simplified cochlear implant (CI) system would be appropriate for widespread use in developing countries. Here, we describe a CI that we have designed to realize such a concept. The system implements 8 channels of processing and stimulation using the cont ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cochlear prosthesis

Chapter · 2007 Cite

Two new directions in speech processor design for cochlear implants.

Journal Article Ear Hear · August 2005 Featured Publication Two new approaches to the design of speech processors for cochlear implants are described. The first aims to represent "fine structure" or "fine frequency" information in a way that it can be perceived and used by patients, and the second aims to provide a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Restaurer l'audition avec des implants [Restoration of hearing with implants

Other Pout la Science · 2005 This article is a summary in French of the 2004 article in English by Dorman and Wilson published in the American Scientist. ... Cite

Cochlear prosthesis

Chapter · 2004 Cite

The design and function of the cochlear implants

Journal Article Am Scientist · 2004 Cite

Engineering design of cochlear implants

Journal Article Cochlear Implants: Auditory Prostheses and Electric Hearing · 2004 Cite

Cochlear implants: some likely next steps.

Journal Article Annu Rev Biomed Eng · 2003 Featured Publication The history of cochlear implants is marked by large improvements in performance, especially over the past two decades and especially due to the development of ever-better processing strategies. Although the progress to date has been substantial, present de ... Full text Link to item Cite

Patients utilizing a hearing aid and a cochlear implant: speech perception and localization.

Journal Article Ear Hear · April 2002 OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this pilot study was to document speech perception and localization abilities in patients who use a cochlear implant in one ear and a hearing aid in the other ear. DESIGN: We surveyed a group of 111 cochlear implant patients and a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Three-month results with bilateral cochlear implants.

Journal Article Ear Hear · February 2002 OBJECTIVES: To evaluate possible binaural listening advantages for speech in quiet, speech in noise, and for localization in a group of postlingually deafened adults with two cochlear implants functioning independently after 3 mo experience. DESIGN: Nine p ... Full text Link to item Cite

Strategies for representing speech information with cochlear implants

Journal Article Cochlear Implants: Principles \& Practices · 2000 Cite

Pseudospontaneous activity: stochastic independence of auditory nerve fibers with electrical stimulation.

Journal Article Hear Res · January 1999 Featured Publication We describe a novel signal processing strategy for cochlear implants designed to emphasize stochastic independence across the excited neural population. The strategy is based on the observation that high rate pulse trains may produce random spike patterns ... Full text Link to item Cite

Bilateral cochlear implants controlled by a single speech processor.

Journal Article Am J Otol · November 1998 OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess, in one profoundly hearing impaired subject, potential benefits and limitations in placing bilaterally implanted scala tympani electrode arrays under control of a single speech processor. STUDY DESIGN: All available st ... Link to item Cite

Design for an inexpensive but effective cochlear implant.

Journal Article Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg · February 1998 Featured Publication Widespread application of cochlear implants is limited by cost, especially in developing countries. In this article we present a design for a low-cost but effective cochlear implant system. The system includes a speech processor, four pairs of transmitting ... Full text Link to item Cite

Temporal representations with cochlear implants.

Journal Article The American journal of otology · November 1997 ObjectiveTo record and characterize intracochlear evoked potentials (EPs) for a variety of electrical stimuli in studies with cochlear implant patients.MethodsRecordings were made with patients having direct percutaneous access to their i ... Cite

Temporal representations with cochlear implants.

Journal Article Am J Otol · November 1997 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: To record and characterize intracochlear evoked potentials (EPs) for a variety of electrical stimuli in studies with cochlear implant patients. METHODS: Recordings were made with patients having direct percutaneous access to their implanted elec ... Link to item Cite

Temporal representations with cochlear implants

Journal Article American Journal of Otology · November 1, 1997 Objective: To record and characterize intracochlear evoked potentials (EPs) for a variety of electrical stimuli in studies with cochlear implant patients. Methods: Recordings were made with patients having direct percutaneous access to their implanted elec ... Cite

The future of cochlear implants.

Journal Article Br J Audiol · August 1997 Featured Publication Remarkable progress has been made in recent years in the design and application of processing strategies for cochlear implants. Most notably, use of the new spectral peak (SPEAK) and continuous interleaved sampling (CIS) strategies have provided large impr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cochlear implant studies at Research Triangle Institute and Duke University Medical Center.

Journal Article Scand Audiol Suppl · 1997 Examples from several areas of cochlear implant research are presented, with emphasis on the continuous interleaved sampling (CIS) approach to speech processor design. Within-subject comparisons of such processors with the compressed analog (CA) approach o ... Link to item Cite

Cochlear Implants in Adults and Children

Journal Article JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association · December 27, 1995 Full text Cite

New processing strategies in cochlear implantation.

Journal Article Am J Otol · September 1995 Featured Publication New strategies for representing acoustic information with multichannel cochlear implants have produced substantial improvements in speech recognition for implant users. This report reviews within-subject comparison of a new continuous interleaved sampling ... Link to item Cite

Advances in coding strategies for cochlear implants

Journal Article Adv Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg · 1995 Cite

Cochlear implants in adults and children

Journal Article NIH Consens Statement · 1995 Cite

New developments in speech processors

Conference ARO Abstracts · 1995 Cite

Progress in the development of speech processors for cochlear prostheses

Conference The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1994 Cite

Importance of patient and processor variables in determining outcomes with cochlear implants.

Journal Article J Speech Hear Res · April 1993 Featured Publication Within-subjects comparisons of processing strategies for cochlear implants are reviewed. Compressed analog strategies were compared to interleaved pulses strategies in tests with one group of 8 subjects, and to continuous interleaved sampling strategies in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Signal processing

Chapter · 1993 Cite

New processing strategies for multichannel cochlear prostheses.

Journal Article Prog Brain Res · 1993 Various strategies for representing speech information with multichannel cochlear prostheses were compared in tests with implant patients. The strategies included the compressed analog (CA) approach of a standard clinical device, and alternative interleave ... Full text Link to item Cite

Design and evaluation of a continuous interleaved sampling (CIS) processing strategy for multichannel cochlear implants.

Journal Article J Rehabil Res Dev · 1993 Two approaches for representing speech information with multichannel cochlear prostheses are being compared in tests with implant patients. Included in these studies are the compressed analog (CA) approach of a standard clinical device and research process ... Link to item Cite

A flexible speech processor cochlear implant research

Conference Final Program and Paper Summaries for the 1992 Digital Signal Processing Workshop Dspws 1992 · January 1, 1992 Full text Cite

Better speech recognition with cochlear implants.

Journal Article Nature · July 18, 1991 Featured Publication HIGH levels of speech recognition have been achieved with a new sound processing strategy for multielectrode cochlear implants. A cochlear implant system consists of one or more implanted electrodes for direct electrical activation of the auditory nerve, a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Strategies for representing speech with cochlear implants

Conference The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1991 Cite

Coding strategies for multichannel cochlear prostheses.

Journal Article Am J Otol · 1991 Comparisons of analog and pulsatile coding strategies for multichannel cochlear prostheses are reviewed. The results are related to design considerations for pediatric implants, including efficacy, safety, ease of fitting, and access to future improvements ... Link to item Cite

Cochlear implants

Journal Article Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 1989 Cite

Cochlear implants

Journal Article International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care · 1989 Cite

Comparative studies of speech processing strategies for cochlear implants.

Journal Article Laryngoscope · October 1988 Featured Publication A wide variety of speech processing strategies for multichannel auditory prostheses were compared in studies of two patients implanted with the UCSF electrode array. Each strategy was evaluated using tests of vowel and consonant confusions, with and withou ... Full text Link to item Cite

Speech processors for cochlear prostheses

Journal Article Proceedings of the IEEE · 1988 Cite

Cochlear implants

Journal Article NIH consensus statement · 1988 Cite

Within-subject comparisons of analog and pulsatile speech processors for cochlear implants

Conference The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1988 Cite

Speech Processors for Cochlear Prostheses

Journal Article Proceedings of the IEEE · January 1, 1988 Full text Cite

A finite-element model of bipolar field patterns in the electrically stimulated cochlea – A two-dimensional approximation

Conference Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of Engineering in Medicine and Biology · 1987 Cite

A finite-element model of bipolar field patterns in the electrically stimulated cochlea – A two-dimensional approximation

Conference Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of Engineering in Medicine and Biology · 1987 Cite

Electrical stimulation model of the auditory nerve: Stochastic response characteristics

Conference Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of Engineering in Medicine and Biology · 1987 Cite

Comparisons of processing strategies for multichannel auditory prostheses

Conference Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, · 1987 Cite

Biosonar imaging of insects by Pteronotus p. parnellii, the Mustached bat

Journal Article National Geographic Research · 1987 Cite

Latency fields in electrically-evoked hearing

Conference Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) Abstracts · 1986 Cite

Mechanisms and physiologic significance of microwave action on the auditory system

Journal Article Journal of Bioelectricity · January 1, 1985 Studies conducted by the authors and their coworkers on the mechanisms and physiologic significance of radiofrequency hearing effects are reviewed. Results of these studies demonstrate that thermoelastic expansion of fluids and structures within the inner ... Cite

Echo intensity compensation by echolocating bats.

Journal Article Hear Res · 1985 When mounted on a swinging pendulum, mustache bats, Pteronotus p. parnellii, emit ultrasonic pulses as they move toward and away from fixed targets. During forward swings they systematically decrease the intensity of their emitted pulses and during backwar ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mechanisms and physiologic significance of microwave action on the auditory system

Journal Article Journal of Bioelectricity · 1985 Studies conducted by the authors and their coworkers on the mechanisms and physiologic significance of radiofrequency hearing effects are reviewed. Results of these studies demonstrate that thermoelastic expansion of fluids and structures within the inner ... Cite

Automatic cued speech

Conference Speech-Processing Aids for the Deaf · 1981 Cite

Alterations in activity at auditory nuclei of the rat induced by exposure to microwave radiation: autoradiographic evidence using [14C]2-deoxy-D-glucose.

Journal Article Brain Res · April 14, 1980 Autoradiographic maps of brain activity in rats exposed to pulsed or continuous-wave (CW) microwave radiation were made using [14C]2-deoxy-D-glucose ([14C]2-DG). Special emphasis was given to measurements of activity in the auditory system because previous ... Full text Link to item Cite

Temperature-controlled heating of tumors by microwaves

Conference Proceedings of the IEEE Southeastern Conference · 1977 Cite

TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLED HEATING OF TUMORS BY MICROWAVES.

Journal Article · 1977 After a discussion of tissue electrical properties and vascularity, the microwave source and applicator requirements are presented to optimize the differential heating of cancerous tissue embedded in normal tissue. A method for automatically and accurately ... Cite

Pinna reflections as cues for localization.

Journal Article J Acoust Soc Am · September 1974 Full text Link to item Cite