The cochlea is key to human hearing, and it plays an important role in our understanding of complex frequency content. The Visual Ear project aims to illustrate the cochlear mechanism as an ...

The Medical University of South Carolina will be the first clinical trial site in the country to test a new kind of cochlear ...

The illustration shows a cross-section of part of the cochlea, the fluid-filled part of the inner ear that converts vibrations from incoming sounds into nerve signals that travel to the brain via ...

A lack of sufficient blood flow to the cochlea in the ear caused by blood pressure variability can affect hearing. Lowering the variability in blood pressure may help prevent hearing loss.

The hearing organ in mammals is a spiraling structure called the "cochlea" from the Greek word for snail. It spirals out from the saccule (one of the balance organs). There are two and a half turns in ...

But whether it's the sound of chickens or my beautiful voice, it all enters your ear through the cochlea, a shell-like structure in the inner ear. Inside the cochlea there are over 16,000 hairlike ...

Hearing implants, such as cochlear implants through UCHealth and Cochlear Osia by Cochlear Americas, can help address ...

A cochlear implant is a surprisingly small electronic device that can be placed into the inner ear in a relatively short surgery. These devices were initially created to rehabilitate hearing loss in ...

A spiral-shaped organ inside your inner ear called your cochlea contains tiny hairs known as stereocilia. These hairs convert vibrations from sound waves into neural signals that your auditory ...

A Massachusetts baby hears for the first time after receiving cochlear implants at UMass Memorial, transforming her world with sound.