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'Hi-fi Bionic Ear' High on Priority List of Professor Graeme Clark
On December 17, Clark unveiled an early prototype of the next generation of electrode fibres to stimulate hearing.
He claimed that it was "time to scale the next mountain," reports The Age.
And the announcement was made on the 30th anniversary of a world-first in cochlear implant technology, which proved that a deaf person could be helped to understand speech.
The multi-channel cochlear implant was the first device to reliably give speech understanding to severely and profoundly deaf people, and spoken language to children born deaf.
And in order to develop the next step in cochlear technology, the Graeme Clark Hearing and Neuroscience Unit in La Trobe University's School of Psychological Science will bring together specialists in hearing, speech and language.
Even Clark will return to his first love - auditory neurophysiology - as a distinguished professor at the university.
While the development of the high-fidelity ear would progress in stages, but Clark was hoping that the first results would come in five years.
"I should think that - if we have the funding, of course - we should see a progression in hi-fi ears over the next five years or so. I would hope that ... we will see the children and adults getting better quality sounds and music and better hearing of noise," he said.
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