2001 Conference On Implantable Auditory Prosthses

描述（由申请人提供）：人工耳蜗植入体是第一个神经植入体。 假体，以实现广泛的临床必要的技术成功 应用程序.它提供了恢复声音的唯一有效疗法 感觉和言语理解的能力。过去20 多年来，患者使用这些设备的表现有了显着改善， 办妥了一批多年想目前，植入者的平均言语理解得分 成人的正确率在80-100%之间。这些进步在很大程度上 从研究人员的集体努力，在广泛的科学阵列， 学科这种密切协作与合作在很大程度上得到了促进。 部分通过一系列两年一度的研究会议，起源于 1983年戈登研究会议上植入式听觉假体。这些 会议是唯一的论坛，其中植入研究问题是唯一的 专心点 自上次（1999年）会议以来的两个“新”发展是双耳植入 以及电听觉和听觉的结合。这两个发展将被讨论 在2001年的会议上。双耳植入物使更好的 噪声中的听力和声源定位（一个重要的安全问题 用于植入患者）。组合声学（低频）和电气（高频） 频率）听力对少数患者来说是现实。健康 成功的混合动力技术的相关和经济后果将是 巨大的。除了这些主题，我们将继续研究最新的 （1）剥夺和刺激对发展的影响 和听觉系统的可塑性（包括来自人类婴儿的数据），（2） 适合植入物的儿童语言习得的基础，（3） 耳蜗中通道和电相互作用的潜在因素，（4） 在听觉外围和更中央的语音编码（包括 来自皮层多电极阵列和功能脑成像的数据），（5） 新电极阵列的开发和（6）新信号的开发 语音编码的处理策略。总之，会议将继续 传统的结合信息从广泛的学科在一个 努力更好地理解耳蜗的电刺激， 人工耳蜗植入患者的表现。本申请寻求 对阿西洛马会议上安排的这次会议提供部分支持 中心，太平洋格罗夫，加利福尼亚州，2001年8月19日至23日。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): 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 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 a series of biennial research conferences, originating with the 1983 Gordon Research Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses. These conferences are the only forum in which implant research issues are the sole focus. The two 'new' developments since the last (1999) meeting are binaural implants and combined electric and acoustic hearing. Both developments will be discussed at length in the 2001 meeting. Binaural implants allow the possibility of better hearing in noise and localization of sound sources (a significant safety issue for implant patients). Combined acoustic (low frequency) and electric (high frequency) hearing is a reality for a small number of patients. The health related and economic consequences of a successful hybrid technology would be enormous. In addition to these topics we will continue to examine the latest research on (1) the effects of deprivation and stimulation on the development and plasticity of the auditory system (including data from human infants), (2) the underlying bases for language acquisition in children fit with implants, (3) the factors underlying channel and electrical interactions in the cochlea, (4) the coding of speech in the auditory periphery and more centrally (including data from cortical multielectrode arrays and functional brain imaging), (5) the development of new electrode arrays and (6) the development of new signal processing strategies for speech coding. In sum, the conference will continue the tradition of combining information from a wide range of disciplines in an effort to better understand electrical stimulation of the cochlea and to improve the performance of patients fit with cochlear implants. This application seeks partial support for this conference, scheduled at the Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA on August 19-23, 2001.