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Article: Research from University of Melbourne, Department of Otolaryngology in the area of cochlear implants published.(Report)
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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Fresh data on cochlear implants are presented in the report 'Electrical stimulation rate effects on speech perception in cochlear implants.' According to a study from Australia, "The objective of this study was to explore cochlear implant users' speech perception performance in quiet and in noise for low to moderate stimulation rates. Eight postlingually deaf adult users of the Nucleus CI24 cochlear implant (contour electrode array) using the ESPrit 3G speech processor participated in this study."
"Monosyllabic word recognition in quiet and sentence perception in noise was evaluated for low to moderate stimulation rates of 275, 350, 500, and 900 ...