[FRIAM] 15555-10253-closing-a-gap-to-normal-hearing---white-paper.pdf

[Frank Wimberly]

Except for the young children.  They some and laugh.

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Frank Wimberly

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On Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 11:55 AM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nick,
>
> Have you read about cochlear implant surgery?  When I worked at Eye and
> Ear Hospital of Pittsburgh, the lab I worked in was doing early research in
> the area.  These are pieces of hardware that transform sound into
> electrical signals meaningful to the brain.
>
> Have you seen the videos of people who have been deaf since birth who get
> such a device.  They inevitably sob when they hear sound for the first time.
>
> Frank
>
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> Frank Wimberly
>
> My memoir:
> https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly
>
> My scientific publications:
> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2
>
> Phone (505) 670-9918
>
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 11:23 AM Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Everybody,
>>
>>
>>
>> In the home congregation, we have had many interesting conversations
>> about hearing in difficult environments, a conversation not only of intense
>> interest to people interested in computer analysis and representation of
>> sounds but also to a bunch of old guys shouting at each other in a crowded
>> college dining area surrounded by hard surfaces.  Recently, we have been
>> trying to assemble our limited knowledge of the cochlea and to grasp the
>> fact that it is not a bank of discrete resonators doing a Fourier
>> Transform, but an innervated sliver of meat with liquid on both sides
>> coiled up in a tiny snail shell.   We are eager for any signs that a
>> hearing aid company has started to reach beyond differential amplification
>> by means of FFT to actually focusing on the cues that really matter for
>> speech comprehension.
>>
>>
>>
>> Anyway, …. Anyway….. .  I skimmed through the “white paper” below and
>> thought that, even though it is “captive” research, it had some interesting
>> features.  Consequently, I thought I would pass it around to the list
>> before I lost track of it.  My friend Jon Zingale accuses me of crowd
>> sourcing my reading and that is EXACTLY what I am doing.  So, beware.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> https://wdh.azureedge.net/-/media/oticon-us/main/download-center/white-papers/15555-10253-closing-a-gap-to-normal-hearing---white-paper.pdf?la=en&rev=0FC7&hash=B7D7D58F75093770CA7E148F72520C1D6BE28CB1
>>
>> If anybody on the list knows of somebody doing advanced research on how
>> the cochlea passes sound on to the brain and how the brain analyses it, we
>> would love to hear from that person.
>>
>>
>>
>> And has for you young folks who think this will never happen to you:
>> have you noticed that your students and young associates and your
>> daughter’s boyfriends MUMBLE.  The moment you find yourself saying, “Curse
>> these millennials, why don’t they speak up like normal people,” you should
>> be taking an interest in hearing technology.
>>
>>
>>
>> Just sayin’
>>
>>
>>
>> N
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