Internal Parts of a Cochlear Implant | 合法醫療器材資訊網

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Speech is a complex sound that rapidly changes over time in loudness and pitch. Normal hearing people can follow these rapid variations and the human ear sends all the details to a part of the brain called auditory cortex, where the different components (vowels, consonants) are detected, recognized, and interpreted as meaningful speech. Even very subtle information like whose voice it is, or what is the emotional state of the talker is conveyed. All of this is embedded in the tiniest of details of the very complex sound that makes up speech. Speech recognition is important, but to really thrive in life you need to be able to recognize someone’s voice and hear if they are angry, sad, happy or excited.

Music has an even greater variation in intensity and pitch, especially classical music. Cochlear implant technology needs to be very refined to deliver the softe...