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Study finds you can change your brain to hear better in chaotic, noisy environments [1]
['Mark Frauenfelder']
Date: 2022-11-11
A study published in the Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (JARO) reports that people with normal hearing can train their brains to better understand speech in low signal-to-noise environments.
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For the training, participants in the 40-person experimental group compared multiple series of rapid tones (think beeps or clicks) in nine sessions over three weeks. Compared to members of the 37-person control group, who were asked to detect a single tone in , those in the experimental group showed overall improvement. … The rate discrimination study is the first to show that "auditory training promotes neural changes in the brain, known as neuroplasticity," Gordon-Salant said. "The results offer great hope in developing clinically feasible auditory training programs that can improve older listeners' ability to communicate in difficult situations."
When I'm in a noisy restaurant, I often think of author Douglas Coupland's account of sneezing up a piece of living tissue and how he became hypersensitive to noise after that:
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