# Building the musical muscle

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDMED 2011
- Speaker: Charles Limb
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Art, architecture and design, Music
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/charles_limb_building_the_musical_muscle)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [Building the musical muscle](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/charles_limb_building_the_musical_muscle/2ff096da4f1f), 16 min (TED's player)