Progress in restoration of hearing with the auditory brainstem implant
V Colletti, RV Shannon, M Carner, S Veronese… - Progress in brain …, 2009 - Elsevier
Fifty years ago auditory scientists were very skeptical about the potential of new prosthetic
approaches that electrically stimulated the auditory nerve, the cochlear nuclei (CN), and the
inferior colliculus (IC). In those decades, the basilar membrane was considered to play a
fundamental and irreplaceable role as a fine spectrum analyzer in hearing physiology, and
therefore it was thought that electrical stimulation of the auditory system would have never
produced functionally useful hearing. Over the last 30 years, cochlear implants (CIs) have …
approaches that electrically stimulated the auditory nerve, the cochlear nuclei (CN), and the
inferior colliculus (IC). In those decades, the basilar membrane was considered to play a
fundamental and irreplaceable role as a fine spectrum analyzer in hearing physiology, and
therefore it was thought that electrical stimulation of the auditory system would have never
produced functionally useful hearing. Over the last 30 years, cochlear implants (CIs) have …