Girl I just take off my CI, and I don't hear anything.

Most cochlear implant users cannot tell the difference between an instrument.

Cochlear implant users cannot tell the difference between these instruments.

This implant is not transmitting the quality of music that usually provides things like warmth.

Now we've been doing some studies to really get a sense of what sound quality is like for these implant users.

From this perspective, cochlear implants seem ethically unproblematic.

And in the end, you achieve something like this where an electrode array is inserted inside the cochlea.

To them, cochlear implants are an enhancement beyond normal functioning.

So for whatever reason, this implant is not successfully stimulating auditory cortices during melody perception.

When I was 12 years old, I was one of the first few people in Singapore who underwent cochlear implantation.

And it allowed us to go back to first principles, and redefine fly tower, acoustic enclosure, light enclosure and so forth.

Truth of the matter is you can play the piano without a cochlear implant, because all you have to do is press the keys at the right time.

However, despite this incredible facility that some cochlear implant users display with language, you turn on the radio and all of a sudden they can't hear music almost at all.

For example, many in the deaf community have rejected cochlear implants, because they do not regard deafness as a disability that needs to be corrected, but as a part of their life and cultural identity.