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- * Three different stimulation methods were tested: using a single electrode at the very end of the implant, a mid-array electrode, and activating multiple electrodes at the apical end.
- * Results showed that single-electrode stimulation did not enhance pitch perception compared to other methods, and there was no relationship between stimulation type and peripheral neural health.
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This study investigated whether selective apical stimulation improves temporal pitch perception in eight MED-EL cochlear implant recipients and whether any such improvement relates to auditory-nerve survival. Three stimulation conditions differing in the place and width of excitation were evaluated: single-electrode stimulation of (i) the most apical, (ii) a mid-array electrode, and (iii) multi-electrode stimulation of the four most apical electrodes. Stimulation-current-induced non-stimulating electrode voltages were recorded to identify extracochlear electrodes and gauge insertion depth. The pitches of the four most apical electrodes were compared using place-pitch ranking. Rate-pitch ranking was assessed between 80 and 981 pulses per second for the three stimulation conditions, to estimate the "upper limit" of temporal pitch. Single-electrode apical stimulation did not increase the upper limit relative to other conditions. The polarity effect (PE), defined as the difference between thresholds obtained for triphasic pulse trains with their central high-amplitude phase either anodic or cathodic, was obtained to evaluate peripheral neural health. The PE did not differ between apical and mid-array stimulation or correlate with the upper limit. In conclusion, we found no improvement of temporal pitch perception with single-electrode apical stimulation, and discuss possible explanations for this observation.
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