A few facts about the Cochlear

A cochlear implant may not work as you think it does. In fact, the cochlear implant does not even use your ears to hear. The CI skips past the ears and goes straight to stimulating the cochlear nerve. It bypasses all possible damage to the outer and inner ear. However, if a person's hearing loss is due to the lack of a cochlear nerve, then the cochlear implant does not work. Electrodes are inserted into the cochlea inside the ear, stimulating the cochlear nerve. This stimulation sends signals through the nerve, which gets interpreted by the brain as sound. It takes in sound from the surrounding environment via a sort of microphone that attaches to the back of the ear.  This is called the external processor that connects with the internal processor that sends the sound signals into the cochlear nerve.