Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses

摘要 本申请寻求对2023年、2025年和2027年植入式听觉会议的部分支持 假体（CIAP）。2023年CIAP计划在太浩湖的Granlibakken会议中心举行， CA，2023年7月9日至14日。人工耳蜗（CI）是第一个广泛应用于临床的神经假体， 恢复严重重听人群的声音感觉和言语理解， 助听器的选配方法在过去的30年里， 已经实现了患者使用这些装置的性能，因此更广泛的患者群体可以 从人工耳蜗中受益目前，植入语言后的平均语言理解得分 成年人在安静的环境中，句子识别的正确率接近80%，在低水平的环境中，正确率为50%。 背景噪音在2岁前接受CI的先天性耳聋儿童的听力恢复率接近正常 语言和语言的发展。CI甚至可以为成年人提供显著的沟通改善 他们有很强的残余听觉这些进步在很大程度上得益于集体 研究人员的努力，在广泛的科学学科，从细胞生物学，生理学，材料科学， 和信号处理，到语言学和认知。这种跨学科的协作与合作， 这在很大程度上是通过一系列两年一次的会议促成的，最初是1983年的戈登会议。这些 会议是与CI相关的唯一论坛，其中科学研究问题是活跃的唯一焦点。 听觉社区的参与者，他们为推动该领域的发展做出了贡献。即使是最好的CI用户， 在具有挑战性的听力中， 环境. CIAP的长期目标是产生尖端的研究想法，以改善设计， 听觉假体的功能。具体目标是：（1）为介绍提供一个全球论坛， 讨论最新和最高质量的研究，（2）有利于传播新的 通过科学讨论的发现，刺激新的研究方向，并通过以下方式促进合作 社交网络，以及（3）为年轻的调查人员和该领域的许多受训人员提供了一个展示其 与现有的调查人员合作并建立网络。CIAP会议使用戈登研究会议模式 组织，有足够的时间在程序中进行讨论，非结构化的时间，以鼓励自发 非正式的讨论和头脑风暴，以及一个孤立的“务虚会”地点，参与者花大部分时间 与其他与会者的清醒时间。

ABSTRACT This application seeks partial support for the 2023, 2025, and 2027 Conferences on Implantable Auditory Prostheses (CIAP). The 2023 CIAP is scheduled to be held at the Granlibakken Conference Center, Lake Tahoe, CA, July 9-14, 2023. The cochlear implant (CI) is the first neural prosthesis in widespread clinical application for restoring sound sensation and speech understanding to the severely hard-of-hearing population who have difficulties understanding speech with acoustic hearing aids. Over the past 30 years, dramatic improvements in patients' performance with these devices have been achieved and hence a wider population of patients can benefit from cochlear implants. Currently the average speech understanding score for implanted postlingually deafened adults is nearly 80% correct for sentence recognition in quiet and 50% correct in low levels of background noise. Congenitally deaf children who receive a CI prior to age 2 are achieving nearly normal rates of speech and language development. CIs can even provide significant improvement in communication for adults who have substantial residual acoustic hearing. These advances have benefitted considerably from the collective efforts of researchers in a broad array of scientific disciplines, from cellular biology, physiology, materials science, and signal processing, to linguistics and cognition. This interdisciplinary collaboration and cooperation has been fostered in large part through a series of biennial conferences, originating with a 1983 Gordon Conference. These conferences are the only forum related to CIs in which scientific research issues are the sole focus of active participants in the auditory community who contribute to moving the field forward. Even the best CI users though face significant limitations in music perception as well as speech perception in challenging listening environments. The long-term goal of CIAP is to generate cutting-edge research ideas to improve the design and function of auditory prostheses. The Specific Aims are to provide (1) a global forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest and highest quality research, (2) an atmosphere that is conducive to: disseminating new findings through scientific discussion, stimulating new lines of research, and facilitating collaborations through social networking, and (3) an opportunity for young investigators and many trainees in the field to present their work and network with established investigators. CIAP conferences use the Gordon Research Conference model of organization, with ample time for discussion within the program, unstructured time to encourage spontaneous informal discussions and brainstorming, and an isolated “retreat” location where participants spend most of their waking hours with other conference participants.