A cochlear implant is a surprisingly small electronic device that can be placed into the inner ear in a relatively short surgery. These devices were initially created to rehabilitate hearing loss in ...

The cochlea is the spiral-shaped organ in your inner ear. There’s a main difference between cochlear implants and standard hearing aids: Hearing aids act as an amplifier to make sounds louder.

As brain states changed, cochlear activity stayed the same, suggesting that the inner ear does not modulate hearing on a short-term basis. Next, the researchers genetically altered mice to disable ...