A Functioning Multichannel Auditory Nerve StimulatorA Preliminary Report on Two Human Volunteers

Abstract

This paper is a brief progress report on our work with two volunteers, each with 4 electrodes placed in his auditory nerve. We are performing stimulation studies to find out if multielectrode stimulation is more effective as a communication aid than single-electrode stimulation, and to gain insights on stimulus coding of environmental sound using sophisticated digital signal processing techniques.