Cochlear Implant Differences In Music

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I haven’t realized that the mechanism for us to hear the music is quite different from the languages before. This video reminds me of one of my classmate in middle school, who is born deaf and had the cochlear implant. He could communicate with us but his pronunciation is slightly different from us. It happened almost ten years ago and I am not sure whether the cochlear implant devices have been greatly improved nowadays.

According to the video, the modern multi-channel cochlear implant device is placed inside the inner ear like inserts an electrode array inside the cochlea. However, I don’t think this crude approach could reproduce the music experience precisely because of some weakness. For instance, according to the literature, first, the

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