2005 Conference on Implantable auditory Prostheses

描述(申请人提供)：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。它为恢复重度聋人的声音感觉和言语理解提供了唯一有效的治疗方法。在过去的20年里，患者使用这些设备的表现得到了戏剧性的改善。目前，植入人工耳机的成年人的平均语音理解得分在80%-100%之间。这些进展在很大程度上源于广泛科学学科的研究人员的集体努力。这种密切的合作和合作在很大程度上是通过一系列两年一次的研究会议来促进的，这些会议始于1983年戈登可植入听觉假体研究会议。这些会议是唯一一个将植入研究问题作为唯一焦点的论坛。这次会议要强调的主题是音高和音乐的编码，以及CMS可塑性和学习的影响。复杂的音高和音乐已被证明在人工耳蜗术中特别难传达。最近的研究已经开始揭示复杂音调的神经科学基础。长期以来，学习和可塑性一直是围绕助听器和植入物的复杂问题。一个特别的会议将探索可塑性和学习的时间进程和神经学数据，因为它适用于人工耳蜗术。除了这些主题外，我们还将审查(1)双耳处理，(2)声学(低频)和电(高频)联合听力，(3)通道相互作用，(4)信号处理和噪声中的语音，(5)音调和音乐感知的编码，(6)语音的感知组织，(7)电极技术和设计，(8)儿童人工耳蜗术，(9)中枢神经系统可塑性和认知因素，以及(10)未来假体的最新研究。总而言之，会议将延续综合来自多个学科的信息的传统，以努力更好地了解耳蜗电刺激，并改善安装了人工耳蜗的患者的表现。本申请寻求对本次会议的部分支持，该会议定于2005年7月30日至8月4日在加利福尼亚州太平洋格罗夫的Asilomar会议中心举行。

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. Topics to receive emphasis in this meeting are the coding of pitch and music, and the effects of CMS plasticity and learning. Complex pitch and music have proven to be particularly difficult to convey in a cochlear implant. Recent studies have started to elicidate the underlying neuroscience of complex pitch. Learning and plasticity have long been complex issues surrounding hearing aids and implants. A special session will explore the time course and neurological data of plasticity and learning as it applies to cochlear implants. In addition to these topics we will examine the latest research on (1) binaural processing, (2) combined acoustic (low frequency) and electric (high frequency) hearing, (3) channel interaction, (4) signal processing and speech in noise, (5) coding of pitch and music perception, (6) perceptual organization of speech, (7) electrode technology and design, (8) cochlear implants in children, (9) CNS plasticity and cognitive factors, and (10) future prostheses. In summary, 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 fitted with cochlear implants. This application seeks partial support for this conference, scheduled at the Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA July 30 to August 4, 2005.