• Corpus ID: 694676

Relational learning in children with cochlear implants

@inproceedings{Silva2006RelationalLI,
  title={Relational learning in children with cochlear implants},
  author={Wagner R. da Silva and Deisy G. De Souza and Julio C{\'e}sar de Rose and Jair Lopes and Maria Cec{\'i}lia Bevilacqua and William J. McIlvane},
  year={2006}
}

• Wagner R. da Silva, D. G. Souza, +3 authors W. McIlvane
• Published 2006
• Medicine

A cochlear implant is a prosthesis that substitutes for Corti’s organ and stimulates electrically the ganglion cells and nerve fibers of the auditory nerve, enabling auditory stimulation. External components of the device comprise a microphone (usually placed behind the ear) that receives external sounds and transmits them, via cable, to a speech processor (roughly the size of a cellular phone). The processor analyzes the sound and digitizes it into coded signals that are sent, through a transmitting coil, as radio-frequency signals (FM) to the cochlear implant receiver/stimulator under the skin. Surgically implanted electrodes placed along the cochlea are connected to the receiver/stimulator through a cable of platinum-iridium wires. The receiver/stimulator delivers the appropriate amount of electrical energy to the electrodes, stimulating the remaining auditory nerve fibers in