{"id":93875,"date":"2019-07-19T09:42:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T16:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/almost-perfect-hearing-for-deaf-with-new-tech"},"modified":"2019-07-19T09:42:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T16:42:42","slug":"almost-perfect-hearing-for-deaf-with-new-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/almost-perfect-hearing-for-deaf-with-new-tech","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Almost perfect\u2019 hearing for deaf with new tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/almost-perfect-hearing-for-deaf-with-new-tech2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Wim Melis from the University of Greenwich is working on deconstructing and reconstructing audio signals with extremely high accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Audio is captured and, from there, converted into a spiking signal\u2014the type the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a> uses. This is then fed into the brain and reconstructed as a 90\u2013100 percent replica of the original sound.<\/p>\n<p>Current technologies, known as <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cochlear+implants\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cochlear implants<\/a>, only achieve a fraction of this. They do the work of damaged parts of the inner ear (cochlea) to provide sound signals to the brain, whereas hearing aids make sounds louder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Wim Melis from the University of Greenwich is working on deconstructing and reconstructing audio signals with extremely high accuracy. Audio is captured and, from there, converted into a spiking signal\u2014the type the brain uses. This is then fed into the brain and reconstructed as a 90\u2013100 percent replica of the original sound. Current technologies, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}