http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/health/scientists-make-hearing-loss-cure-breakthrough-$1284991.htm
http://www.yourneighborhoodnews.net/Archive/AliveAndKicking/AAK_1Apr09.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5946309.ece
According to the legend, Bheema, when he assumed his duties as the cook in the kitchen of Virata, did not know how to cook. One of the first things he did was to cut a lot different types of vegetables, boiled them together and put some grated coconut. Now, do you see the connection ??!!
Saturday, 4 April 2009
Life - as it is now !
A long time has passed since the last post, life busy with a couple of activities. Right from quitting the company to deciding on university courses coupled with job hunts, it has been quite hectic.
But managed to find time to attend a 2 day course on Digital Signal Processing for cochlear implants and was wondering for the past 2 days as to why the DSP cannot replace our Biological signal processor, the cochlea of the inner ear, completely !
What makes it so difficult to understand and appreciate music with a CI. If splitting the input audio signal into frequency bands was after all the only main thing ( keeping in mind the temporal variations), why would it be so difficult. After all we have deciphered the functioning of the cochlea. But it seems that our signal processing is not just quite there. We still have some way to go before we reach that goal. Perhaps, if we concentrate on the solution, what we really want we would start thinking of all alternative routes. And that seems to be clearly the indication if what the results from a google search seem to indicate for a search on cochlea.
Posting thoughts by a biology teacher and a technical advancement in the field of stem cell biology.
But managed to find time to attend a 2 day course on Digital Signal Processing for cochlear implants and was wondering for the past 2 days as to why the DSP cannot replace our Biological signal processor, the cochlea of the inner ear, completely !
What makes it so difficult to understand and appreciate music with a CI. If splitting the input audio signal into frequency bands was after all the only main thing ( keeping in mind the temporal variations), why would it be so difficult. After all we have deciphered the functioning of the cochlea. But it seems that our signal processing is not just quite there. We still have some way to go before we reach that goal. Perhaps, if we concentrate on the solution, what we really want we would start thinking of all alternative routes. And that seems to be clearly the indication if what the results from a google search seem to indicate for a search on cochlea.
Posting thoughts by a biology teacher and a technical advancement in the field of stem cell biology.