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

[Frank Wimberly]

Some = smile.

Like this

https://youtu.be/EC4uJDLRleM


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On Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 12:08 PM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Except for the young children.  They some and laugh.
>
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> Frank Wimberly
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> My memoir:
> https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly
>
> My scientific publications:
> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2
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> Phone (505) 670-9918
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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’
>>>
>>>
>>>
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