A young man with a cochlear implant. (IMAGE)

Deutsches Primatenzentrum (DPZ)/German Primate Center

A young man with a cochlear implant.

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A young man with a cochlear implant. The cochlear implant is considered the most successful neuroprosthesis, providing speech understanding in quiet background to more than 700,000 users worldwide.

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Karin Tilch/Deutsches Primatenzentrum

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