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Accuracy concern: 1979 Hochmair implant description
editThe current text describes the 1979 patient (C.K.) as receiving "a modified version" of the original 1977 eight-channel device. This characterisation appears to originate from a company press release and is inconsistent with the primary literature. According to Dr Ingeborg Hochmair's own account in her essay "The Importance of Being Flexible" https://laskerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2013_c_hochmair.pdf, the 1977 eight-channel device was not further developed. Instead, the Hochmairs moved to a passive transcutaneous four-channel implant, which became their primary research platform. More significantly, Dr Hochmair explains that because monopolar stimulation was used to keep power consumption low, the resulting current spread meant the device functioned effectively as a single-channel broadband stimulator rather than a true multichannel device. The speech coding strategy selected the best-performing electrode rather than stimulating across channels. The speech understanding result achieved by C.K. was real and significant, but the current Wikipedia text implies it was a multichannel achievement, which is not supported by the primary source. I propose updating the text to accurately reflect the four-channel passive device and its functionally single-channel operation, citing Hochmair's essay rather than the press release. A peer-reviewed essay by the device's inventor is a stronger source than a company press release, and should be preferred where the two conflict. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MoreCoffee (talk • contribs) 06:46, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
Conflict of interest/sockpuppeting
editArticle has been subject to promotional sock-puppetting. Jytdog (talk) 09:45, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Request edit on 15 March 2016
editHi there,
Just letting you know first of all that I am an employee of Cochlear Corporation.
Med El did not invent the worlds first "multi-channel" cochlear implant. Their implant was single channel implant and therefore (though a good start) was of minimal clinical benefit compared with the first multi-channel cochlear implant which was actually invented by prof Graham Clark who founded Cochlear Corporation.
- done. and thank you so much working this way, instead of way that folks from MEDEL used to operate in WP. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 07:41, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
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