Event
Bringing hearing to the deaf - Cochlear implants: A technical and personal account
Friday, September 21, 2007 15:30to17:00
Rutherford Physics Building
3600 rue University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2T8, CA
Ian Shipsey, particle physicist and professor of physics, Purdue University. Cochlear implants, the first device to successfully restore neural function, have instigated a popular but controversial revolution in the treatment of deafness, and serve as a model for research in neuroscience and biomedical engineering. The speaker has been profoundly deaf since 1989. Thanks to a cochlear implant he recently heard the voice of his daughter for the first time, and his wife's voice for the first time in 13 years.