Pitch Correlates of Direct Auditory Nerve Electrical Stimulation

The most important question for multichannel stimulation is its capacity to transfer enough addi­ tional information to the auditory nerve (and brain) to justify its use instead of a single electrode. If true, and we suspect it is, it will shortly be time to decide on how to do this best. Important criteria are the location of the electrodes, merits of the scala tym­ pani, and the auditory nerve approaches. We hope this conference will make a beginning in comparing data, both in those parameters which seem the same and in identifying those which, at this point, seem different.