| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In patients with sensorineural hearing loss "I hear sound but I do not understand the words", we feel the limit of traditional hearing aid treatment. We focused on the possibility of dichotic listening system for improving speech intelligibility and a new auditory rehabilitation that associates shape and sound, ie visual and auditory sense. Mouse cerebral auditory cortex responses were observed using flavoprotein autofluorescence imaging. Data collection of dichotic listening was technically difficult. After the mouse was exposed by associating visual and auditory stimuli, cerebral auditory cortex responses were found only by looking at the shape without sound. I think that these results can contribute to further new auditory rehabilitation using sensory stimulation other than hearing.
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