New Scientist article

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Hmmmm....I don't get this coarse thingy.. to me the signal sounds normal. Much clearer then the 'coarseness' of my HA's.

Is this something like the Mickey Mouse sounds that I was supposed to hear? I didn't really notice that to me the sound for the first 3 weeks was like being in a bubble. LOL But coarse? don't think so.

I don't think so either.

Everything I hear through my CIs sounds "normal" and exactly like I remember before losing my hearing.

Since no one but the CI user has the ability to hear through a CI, the next best thing is to create audio simulations and/or assume what *might* be heard based on the experiences of other CI users. I know some CI users who hear Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck or Darth Vader sounding speech following activation, but this doesn't happen to all of us -- me included. When both of my CIs were activated (a year apart), everything sounded metallic.

 

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Interesting results.
Especially that there was a great deal of difference between implanted before 1 and at age 2-3.

Still, for a very recent article I found this sentence puzzling:

Until these latest findings, implants had only been shown successful in adults who had gone deaf later in life, rather than in the estimated 1 in 2000 people born profoundly deaf each year. .......

I knew this way before 2005.... and they now it since the "latest findings"...
They need to read momre and write less......