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 ...

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

The cochlea is the spiral-shaped organ in your inner ear. There’s a main difference between cochlear implants and standard hearing aids: Hearing aids act as an amplifier to make sounds louder.

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

As an avid music lover whose hearing was rapidly deteriorating, Vicki was confronted with an agonising choice if she wanted to hear again. She doesn't regret her decision.

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

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 ...

When sound waves reach the inner ear, neurons there pick up the vibrations ... how the brain uses auditory information in the real world. MIT professor and McGovern investigator Josh McDermott ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...