The cochlear nerve, also known as the acoustic or auditory nerve, is a sensory nerve responsible for hearing. It travels from ...

Simple ‘telephone’ theories of neural encoding of pitch were replaced by ‘volley’ theories 1 in which stimulus frequency was encoded in the auditory nerve as a whole. According to ...

incus and stapes), the inner ear (consisting of the cochlea and vestibular organs), the auditory nerve, the auditory cortex and other brain areas involved in sound processing. Wang, Kapolowicz ...

China's first centralized procurement program for cochlear implants has dramatically reduced their average cost, cutting ...

1). SFOAE-based tuning, estimated with low-level swept-tone stimuli, was compared to measures of auditory-nerve tuning and to previously reported behavioral measures of frequency tuning. In ...

Montpellier, France Monday, December 30, 2024, 13:00 Hrs [IST] ...

Each set includes a surgically implanted component and an external device. Cochlear implants, widely considered the most ...

Located on the surface of the temporal lobes, the primary auditory cortex of each hemisphere processes input from the opposite ear. Cranial nerves, however, communicate with both hemispheres.

The primary hearing cells are the hair cells, which convert sound waves into electrical signals, and the cochlear neurons, which transfer this information to the brain via the auditory nerve. When ...

A new study published in The Laryngoscope journal showed that possibilities for cochlear implantation (CI) are growing as ...