Cochlear implants can enable people with severe-to-profound hearing loss to hear again. The goal is to design optimal strategies for electrically stimulating the nerve of hearing via the electrodes in the inner ear. In a general model it has previously been shown that adding noise to the electrode signals can increase information transmission. Here, it is demonstrated how measurements of the neural response to electrical stimulation, which can be made by modern cochlear implants, can be used to develop patient-specific models.

Andrew Little is an alumnus of the School of Engineering at Warwick, who has made a huge success out of pioneering the automated supply of books for mail order companies such as Amazon. He has kindly funded the School to establish a lecture series of general engineering interest.

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