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How sound becomes hearing

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Coklar Implants Aren't as Easy as They Used to Be

A lot of people that i've worked with will say, now, when i listen to my spouse, it sounds like her voice. But while coklar implants work pretty well for speech, they don't work nearly as well for music. Music is just a much more complicated kind of sound. And an implant only has a small number of electrodes. You have to simplify all the frequencies and you can think of it as picilating the sound.

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