Cochlear implants are prosthetic devices used to provide hearing to people who would otherwise be profoundly deaf.
The deliberate addition of noise to the electrode signals could increase the amount of information transmitted, but
standard cochlear implants do not replicate the noise characteristic of normal hearing because if noise is added in an
uncontrolled manner with a limited number of electrodes then it will almost certainly lead to worse performance. Only if
partially independent stochastic activity can be achieved in each nerve fibre can mechanisms like suprathreshold
stochastic resonance be effective.
We are investigating the use of stochastic beamforming to achieve greater independence. The strategy involves
presenting each electrode with a linear combination of independent Gaussian noise sources. Because the cochlea is filled
with conductive salt solutions, the noise currents from the electrodes interact and the effective stimulus for each nerve
fibre will therefore be a different weighted sum of the noise sources. To some extent therefore, the effective stimulus for
a nerve fibre will be independent of the effective stimulus of neighbouring fibres.
For a particular patient, the electrode position and the amount of current spread are fixed. The objective is therefore to
find the linear combination of noise sources that leads to the greatest independence between nerve discharges. In this
theoretical study we show that it is possible to get one independent point of excitation (one null) for each electrode and
that stochastic beamforming can greatly decrease the correlation between the noise exciting different regions of the
cochlea.
KEYWORDS: Computer aided design, Visualization, Virtual reality, 3D modeling, Modeling, 3D applications, Data modeling, Human-machine interfaces, Data communications, Information visualization
Virtual Reality (VR) is regarded as a high-end user-computer interface that involves real-time simulation and interactions through multiple sensorial channels. It is assumed that VR will reshape the interaction interfaces between user and computer technology by offering new approaches for the communication of information, the visualisation of processes and the creative expression of ideas. The VR application in construction has a relatively long history but its successful stories are not heard quite often.
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