Re: Will it ever be possible to give a congenitally-deaf individual the ability to hear?

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 09:08:17 -0500, "artis" <artis5@farscape.com>
wrote:

>"Ken" <kkerrison@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
>news:1167088740.881256.3700@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>
>> I understand Cochlear is developing a 48-electrode array - difficult
>> for the reasons you mention. And still a long way from thousands.
>> Incidentally, in my case, as a recent implantee,  all electrodes
>> worked.
>>
>> I have yet to tackle music - except what I pick up listening to
>> radio/DVDs/TV. And I have one ear which, with a hearing aid, can hear
>> up to 1000hz and, within that limitation, can enjoy music (No violins
>> but most vocal not bad and, oddly, clarinets come through)
>> In response to Kalman and others,
>>
>>>From reports from other implantees, experience with music varies widely
>> (I find myself wondering whether those who do well were, in their
>> hearing years, tone deaf - plenty of tone-deaf people love/ enjoy music
>> and the deficiencies of CI mentioned above would not affect them - my
>> wife is tone-deaf and, as a child, had a hopeless ambition to be in the
>> choir - naturally she always, eventually, got turfed out!).
>>
>> The other thing is the ability of the brain to adapt - learn. I intend
>> to work with a keyboard to see if it is possible to follow the
>> chromatic scale - we will see.
>> And the other string to my bow is continuing development of CI
>> software. The big thing, for people interested in music, is that
>> Cochlear must be keen to sell CI technology to populous increasingly
>> affluent Asian countries whose languages are tonal. For CI to work well
>> in these countries its ability to convey music is, coincidentally,
>> improved.
>>
>
>
>Rush Limbaugh says that with his cochlear implant he can listen to music he
>knew before his auto-immune condition rendered him completely deaf, and hear
>it, but music he did not learn when his hearing was normal, he cannot now
>decipher or appreciate. A very interesting observation, as he is a former
>disk jockey, who now makes talk radio his livelihood.
>
>Artis
>

This is probably a normal phenomena, even for hearing people.  I use a
pillow speaker to help with insomnia by playing music at a loudness
just above the threshhold of hearing.  Old favorites are easily
recognizable while new music is just gibberish. I think that it is
something in the brain - not the ears.
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