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Article Dans Une Revue Hearing Research Année : 2024

Asymmetric pulses delivered by a cochlear implant allow a reduction in evoked firing rate and in spatial activation in the guinea pig auditory cortex

Victor Adenis
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Elie Partouche
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Chloé Huetz
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Despite that fact that the cochlear implant (CI) is one of the most successful neuro-prosthetic devices which allows hearing restoration, several aspects still need to be improved. Interactions between stimulating electrodes through current spread occurring within the cochlea drastically limit the number of discriminable frequency channels and thus can ultimately result in poor speech perception. One potential solution relies on the use of new pulse shapes, such as asymmetric pulses, which can potentially reduce the current spread within the cochlea. The present study characterized the impact of changing electrical pulse shapes from the standard biphasic symmetric to the asymmetrical shape by quantifying the evoked firing rate and the spatial activation in the guinea pig primary auditory cortex (A1). At a fixed charge, the firing rate and the spatial activation in A1 decreased by 15 to 25 % when asymmetric pulses were used to activate the auditory nerve fibers, suggesting a potential reduction of the spread of excitation inside the cochlea. A strong “polarity-order” effect was found as the reduction was more pronounced when the first phase of the pulse was cathodic with high amplitude. These results suggest that the use of asymmetrical pulse shapes in clinical settings can potentially reduce the channel interactions in CI users.
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hal-04569042 , version 1 (06-05-2024)

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Victor Adenis, Elie Partouche, P Stahl, D Gnansia, Chloé Huetz, et al.. Asymmetric pulses delivered by a cochlear implant allow a reduction in evoked firing rate and in spatial activation in the guinea pig auditory cortex. Hearing Research, In press, ⟨10.1016/j.heares.2024.109027⟩. ⟨hal-04569042⟩
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