| Ear implants
resound in deaf cats’ brains
Experiments with
deaf kittens indicate that the brain’s malleability during childhood
accounts for hearing improvements sparked by cochlear implants in
people.
References:
Klinke, R., et
al. 1999. Recruitment of the auditory cortex in congenitally deaf
cats by long-term cochlear electrostimulation. Science
285(Sept. 10):1729.
Rauschecker,
J.P. 1999. Making brain circuits listen. Science 285(Sept.
10):1686.
Sources:
Rainer Klinke
Physiologisches Institut III
Theodor-Stern-Kai 7
D-60590 Frankfurt/M
Germany
Josef P.
Rauschecker
Georgetown University Medical Center
Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and
Computational Sciences
Washington, DC 20007
From Science
News, Vol. 156, No. 11, September 11, 1999, p. 167. Copyright ©
1999, Science Service. |