Lecture 18

Question 1

What are the frequencies in background noise that is more heard well? Why is this?

Answer 1

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Question 2

What is the process of hearing?

Answer 2

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Question 3

What is mechanotransduction?

Answer 3

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Question 4

What do implants essentially do?

Answer 4

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Question 5

What is sensorineural hearing loss? What is the pathophysiology? What can it be caused by?

Answer 5

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Question 6

What type of hearing loss is associated with age? What kind of sounds is lost in these cases first?

Answer 6

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Question 7

How can we solve the sensorineural hearing loss?

Answer 7

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Question 8

How does a cochlear implant work? What is an example? What needs to be working in the person for the cochlear implant to be effective?

Answer 8

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Question 9

What is the schematics of the cochlear implant? What are the components?

Answer 9

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Question 10

How does the signal get through the skin barrier?

Answer 10

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Question 11

What is new about the modern electrodes?

Answer 11

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Question 12

What is a problem with the cochlear implants? How is this solved?

Answer 12

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Question 13

What does the body need to compensate with the cochlear implants? Why? What phases happens in the brain because of this?

Answer 13

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Question 14

What have been the methods to best represent the acoustic signal and stimulate the electrodes over the years?

Answer 14

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Question 15

What strategy was thought of around 1980 for cochlear implants?

Answer 15

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Question 16

What is the F0/F2 processor? How did it work? What was added later?

Answer 16

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Question 17

What was the level of the F0/F2 processor? Was it sufficient enough?

Answer 17

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Question 18

What strategy was though in the early 1980s for cochlear implants?

Answer 18

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Question 19

What is the Compressed Analogue stimulation strategy for cochlear implants? How does it work?

Answer 19

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Question 20

What is non-linear compression? How is it used in compressed analogue stimulation strategy?

Answer 20

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Question 21

How many frequency channels are needed to understand speech? How is the quality of the sound? How many channels in current cochlear implants?

Answer 21

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Question 22

What is the problem with adding loads of channels in a cochlear implant?

Answer 22

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Question 23

What strategy was come up with to solve this problem in the 1990s for cochlear implants?

Answer 23

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Question 24

What is Continuous Interleaved Sampling? What was the idea behind this?

Answer 24

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Question 25

What are the components of the continuous interleaved sampling?

Answer 25

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Question 26

What is the n of m approach for cochlear implants? How does it work?

Answer 26

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Question 27

What is the current research for cochlear implants working on?

Answer 27

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Question 28

What is current steering?

Answer 28

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Question 29

What is steering parameters? How does it work? What is the benefit of using this method for cochlear implants?

Answer 29

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Question 30

What are the cochlear implants still missing? Why?

Answer 30

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Question 31

What are the cells involved in the temporal information in neural response? What does each cell do?

Answer 31

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Question 32

What points do the bushy points fire at: What is the consequence?
a. f< 800Hz?
b. 800Hz< f < 4KHz?
f>4KHz?

Answer 32

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Question 33

What is the mechanism that is critical of perceiving pitch? Does the cochlear implant replicate this? Why?

Answer 33

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Question 34

What is Temporal information important for? Is it conveyed in cochlear implants?

Answer 34

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Question 35

What is the potential method for conveying temporal information in a cochlear implant? What are the different steps?

Answer 35

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