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  TED: Charles Limb: Building the musical muscle - Charles Limb (2011)

  Posted: December 1st, 2011, 10:15am EST by TEDTalks

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  Charles Limb performs cochlear implantation, a surgery that treats hearing loss and can restore the ability to hear speech. But as a musician too, Limb thinks about what the implants lack: They don't let you fully experience music yet. (There's a hair-raising example.) At TEDMED, Limb reviews the state of the art and the way forward.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDTalks_video/~4/dhjZwxCY_JA" height="1" width="1"/