Cochlear Implants: Auditory Prostheses and Electric Hearing

Fan-Gang Zeng is Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at University of California, Irvine. Richard R. Fay is Director of the Parmly Hearing Institute and Professor of Psychology at Loyola University of Chicago. Arthur N. Popper is Professor in the Department of Biology, Director of the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program, and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing at the University of Mayland, College Park.  

1. Auditory Prostheses: Past, Present, and Future.- 2. Engineering Design of Cochlear Implants.- 3. Cochlear Implants: Clinical Applications.- 4. Anatomical Considerations and Long-Term Effects of Electrical Stimulation.- 5. Biophysics and Physiology.- 6. Central Responses to Electrical Stimulation.- 7. Psychophysics and Electrical Stimulation.- 8. Speech Perception with Cochlear Implants.- 9. Learning, Memory, and Cognitive Processes in Deaf Children Following Cochlear Implantation.