Cochlear implant surgery helps people with severe hearing loss by placing an electronic device inside the inner ear. To reach ...

Researchers developed a new terahertz imaging method that was able to visualize internal details of the mouse cochlea with micron-level spatial resolution. An excised mouse cochlea is pictured.

Bone-anchored hearing aids (BAHAs) and cochlear implants are devices that can improve the quality of a person’s hearing. They work in different ways, and each has specific advantages and disadvantages ...

Cochlear implant surgery may take place in a hospital or an outpatient surgical center. You will be put to sleep under general anesthesia during the procedure so you will not feel anything nor ...

More than 50 years after cochlear implants were invented, researchers may be closer to understanding why the devices don’t promote hearing in every deaf or hard of hearing recipient. A study in rats ...

Ben Summers lights up with a smile the moment he talks about the “Batman” theme song or the afternoons he spends playing the piano at his grandmother’s house. Just a few years ago, Ben could not hear ...

Chairman's introduction / O. Lowenstein -- Hearing in fish / P.S. Enger -- Evolution of the auditory conducting apparatus in terrestrial vertebrates / A. Tumarkin -- Structure and function of the ear ...