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Title: 28 YR OLD WOMAN HEARS FOR THE FIRST TIME
Post by: flaxattack on March 20, 2013, 03:17:21 PM

this is a little long, feel free to jog...
this woman was deaf from birth. She had a cochlear implant done.  
This is the from where the assistant starts tuning the implant.
It's kinda cool.. imagine... not being able to hear...
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpi1xKD20dw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpi1xKD20dw)

Title: 28 YR OLD WOMAN HEARS FOR THE FIRST TIME
Post by: lbpesq on March 20, 2013, 03:56:42 PM

Very cool!  I wonder how music sounds for the first time?
 
Bill, tgo

Title: 28 YR OLD WOMAN HEARS FOR THE FIRST TIME
Post by: mario_farufyno on March 21, 2013, 06:28:37 AM

Wonderfull science.
 
Bill, they say everything sounds odd and metalic, since the frequency band is narrow and you must teach your brain to decode new ear's data. Sounds get more and more organized and understandable once you get used to this new information, though.  Seems similar to what happens when we hear mp3 ou telephone (both limit transmitted band), our brain completes missing data since we know what should be heard (don't you remember how we really could hear deep bass in our old LPs? Well, they are very limited on bass, but we could decode all missing frequencies). Someone deaf doesn't know how should feel any sound, so they have to train their brain to understand it first.

Title: 28 YR OLD WOMAN HEARS FOR THE FIRST TIME
Post by: 811952 on March 21, 2013, 08:11:53 AM

Very cool.