2007 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses

2007年植入式听觉假体会议

• 批准号: 7334673
• 负责人: Robert V Shannon
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: HOUSE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-06-01 至 2008-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7334673
• 关键词: Adult; Attention; Auricular prosthesis; Basic Science; Biological; Child; Cochlea; Cochlear Implants; Code; Collaborations; Complex; Data; Devices; Discipline; Electric Stimulation; Esthesia; Fostering; Frequencies; Future; Hearing; Hearing Aids; Hearing Impaired Persons; Implant; Infant; Knowledge; Learning; Music; Neurosciences; Patients; Performance; Range; Research; Research Personnel; Residual state; Schedule; Scientist; Score; Series; Speech; Structure; Sum; Training; clinical application; computerized data processing; improved; neural prosthesis; novel; sound; success; symposium

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks partial support for the 2007 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, scheduled at the Granlibakken Conference Center, Lake Tahoe, CA, July 10-15, 2007. The cochlear implant is the first neural prosthesis to achieve the technical success necessary for widespread clinical application. It provides the only effective therapy for restoring sound sensation and speech understanding to the profoundly deaf. Over the past 20 years dramatic improvements in patients' performance with these devices have been achieved. Currently the average speech understanding score for implanted postlingually deafened adults is between 80-100% correct. These advances have derived substantially from the collective efforts of researchers in a broad array of scientific disciplines. This close collaboration and cooperation has been fostered in large part through this series of biennial research conferences, originating with a 1983 Gordon Conference. These conferences are the only forum in which scientific research issues are the sole focus. Topics to receive emphasis in this meeting are the coding of temporal fine structure (TFS) for speech and music, implants in infants and children, and the effects of training. Complex pitch and music, which rely on TFS, have proven to be particularly difficult to convey in a cochlear implant. Cochlear implant research is at the forefront of studies to elucidate the underlying neuroscience of complex pitch. Learning and plasticity have long been known to relevant to hearing aids and implants, and are now receiving considerable attention in recent research. In addition to these topics we will examine the latest research on (1) biological trophic factors, (2) novel stimulation and signal-processing strategies, (3) implants beyond the cochlea, (4) combining implant stimulation with low-frequency residual hearing. In sum, the conference will continue the tradition of bringing together knowledge and data from a wide range of disciplines in an effort to better understand electrical stimulation of the cochlea and to improve the performance of patients fitted with cochlear implants. This application seeks partial support for a conference on basic research on cochlear implants and other forms of prosthetic hearing. This conference provides a unique forum for scientists to share their latest research and to brainstorm about future directions in research.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请为2007年植入式听觉假体会议寻求部分支持，该会议定于2007年7月10日至15日在加利福尼亚州太浩湖格兰利巴肯会议中心举行。人工耳蜗是第一个获得广泛临床应用所必需的技术成功的神经假体。它提供了唯一有效的治疗恢复声音感觉和语言理解的深度聋人。在过去的20年里，使用这些设备的患者的表现得到了显著的改善。目前，植入后语言失聪成人的平均言语理解得分在80-100%之间。这些进步在很大程度上源于广泛科学学科的研究人员的集体努力。这种密切的协作和合作在很大程度上是通过这一系列两年一次的研究会议来促进的，这些会议起源于1983年的戈登会议。这些会议是唯一以科学研究问题为唯一焦点的论坛。本次会议将重点讨论语音和音乐的颞精细结构编码、婴儿和儿童的植入以及训练的效果。复杂的音高和音乐依赖于TFS，已被证明在人工耳蜗中特别难以传达。人工耳蜗的研究是阐明复杂音高的潜在神经科学研究的前沿。学习和可塑性长期以来一直被认为与助听器和植入物有关，现在在最近的研究中受到了相当大的关注。除此之外，我们还将探讨以下方面的最新研究：(1)生物营养因子，(2)新型刺激和信号处理策略，(3)耳蜗外植入物，(4)植入物刺激与低频残余听力相结合。总而言之，会议将继续汇集来自广泛学科的知识和数据的传统，以更好地理解耳蜗的电刺激，并提高耳蜗植入患者的表现。本申请寻求部分支持一个关于人工耳蜗和其他形式的人工听力基础研究的会议。本次会议为科学家们提供了一个独特的论坛，分享他们最新的研究成果，并就未来的研究方向进行头脑风暴。