ReviewTrends in amplification2010
Probing the electrode-neuron interface with focused cochlear implant stimulation.
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89 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 141 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cochlear implant re-mapping informed by measures of viability of the electrode-neural interface: a systematic review with meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- Multichannel optical cochlear implants enable spectrally distinct auditory activity.EMBO molecular medicine · 2026Article
- Electrically evoked compound action potentials in adult and pediatric cochlear implant users: I. Cochlear nerve responsiveness and electrode-neuron interface index.Hearing research · 2026Article
- Within-electrode temporal envelope processing predicts multi-channel speech outcomes across cochlear implant pulse rates.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Consonant perception and error patterns in children and adults with cochlear implants.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2026Article
- Overcoming the Challenge of Singing Among Cochlear Implant Users: An Analysis of the Disrupted Feedback Loop and Strategies for Improvement.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Asymmetric temporal envelope encoding: Lateralization with varying envelope shape and spectral mismatch.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2025Article
- A comparison of electrophysiological measures for characterizing the cochlear-implant electrode-neuron interface.JASA express letters · 2025Article
- Speech performance in adults with cochlear implants using combined channel deactivation and dynamic current focusing.Hearing research · 2025Article
- Axon initial segment plasticity caused by auditory deprivation degrades time difference sensitivity in a model of neural responses to cochlear implants.Journal of computational neuroscience · 2025Article
- Cochlear-implant simulated spectral degradation attenuates emotional responses to environmental sounds.International journal of audiology · 2025Article
- The Greenwood function shows close alignment with pitch perceived by cochlear implant patients with long, flexible electrode arrays and fine-structure stimulation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Investigating the Effect of Blurring and Focusing Current in Cochlear Implant Users with the Panoramic ECAP Method.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2024Article
- Speech-evoked cortical activities and speech recognition in adult cochlear implant listeners: a review of functional near-infrared spectroscopy studies.Experimental brain research · 2024Review
- Is the spread of excitation different between adults and children cochlear implants users?European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2024Article
- How to vocode: Using channel vocoders for cochlear-implant research.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2024Article
- Insights Into Electrophysiological Metrics of Cochlear Health in Cochlear Implant Users Using a Computational Model.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2024Article
- Cochlear implant electrode design for safe and effective treatment.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Review
- Cochlear Health and Cochlear-implant Function.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2023Review
- What Is the Benefit of Ramped Pulse Shapes for Activating Auditory Cortex Neurons? An Electrophysiological Study in an Animal Model of Cochlear Implant.Brain sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Cochlear implants are highly successful neural prostheses for persons with severe or profound hearing loss who gain little benefit from hearing aid amplification. Although implants are capable of providing important spectral and temporal cues for speech perception, performance on speech tests is variable across listeners. Psychophysical measures obtained from individual implant subjects can also be highly variable across implant channels. This review discusses evidence that such variability reflects deviations in the electrode-neuron interface, which refers to an implant channel's ability to effectively stimulate the auditory nerve. It is proposed that focused electrical stimulation is ideally suited to assess channel-to-channel irregularities in the electrode-neuron interface. In implant listeners, it is demonstrated that channels with relatively high thresholds, as measured with the tripolar configuration, exhibit broader psychophysical tuning curves and smaller dynamic ranges than channels with relatively low thresholds. Broader tuning implies that frequency-specific information intended for one population of neurons in the cochlea may activate more distant neurons, and a compressed dynamic range could make it more difficult to resolve intensity-based information, particularly in the presence of competing noise. Degradation of both types of cues would negatively affect speech perception.
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