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Although we have little awareness that we are doing it, we spend most of our lives filtering out many of the sounds that permeate our lives and acutely focusing on others ? a phenomenon known as auditory selective attention. Hearing scientists are attempting to tease apart the process.
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Bilingualism fine-tunes hearing, enhances attentio
A new study provides the first biological evidence that bilinguals' rich experience with language "fine-tunes" their auditory nervous system and helps them juggle linguistic input in ways that enhance attention and working memory. While many people do Sudoku to sharpen their minds, bilinguals' advantages in hearing, attention and working memory come automatically from knowing and speaking two ...
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Sign language isn't in facility's curriculu
Something unexpected has been going on at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church.
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ASA news release: Lay-language summaries of research at acoustics meeting now onlin
( American Institute of Physics ) Acoustic cues for blind travelers, sound as a tool, and the use of metamaterials for seismic mitigation are just some of the lay-language versions of papers being presented at the Acoustics 2012 meeting in Hong Kong, May 13-18, a joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustical Society of China, Western Pacific Acoustics Conference, and the Hong ...
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Inner Ea
The spiral-shaped organ of Corti, found in the cochlea, houses the sensitive hair cells that convert sound vibrations into nerve impulses. These signals then travel along the auditory nerve to the brain. [More]
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Advanced Brain Technologies Launches TLP Spectrum, Sound Brain Fitness for the Sensory Sensitive Listene
Advanced Brain Technologies today announced the launch of TLP Spectrum?; a new auditory program for at home use, to improve sound brain fitness and reduce sensory sensitivities in children and adults who are or who may become hypersensitive to sounds.OGDEN, Utah (PRWEB) April 25, 2012 Advanced Brain Technologies today announced the launch of TLP Spectrum?; a new auditory program for at home use ...
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Diagnostic Devices Market Outlook in BRICS
NEW YORK, May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Diagnostic Devices Market Outlook in BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, ...
Thu, 03 May 2012 05:35:00 -0700 - (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) to 2018
Whales Adjust Their Hearing Sensitivit
Have you ever wanted to turn down the volume at a deafening concert or noisy bar? Envy the whale: a new study finds that toothed whales can reduce their own auditory sensitivity when they expect a loud sound. The work is presented at this week?s Acoustics 2012 meeting. [Paul E. Nachtigall and Alexander Ya Supin, " Immediate changes in whale hearing sensitivity "] [More]
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Music training improves the aging process, researchers sa
Learning and knowing music even later in life helps thinking and hearing for elderly, says study.
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Support group helps children with hearing issue
Since 2004, the New Orleans Oral School has served deaf and hard-of-hearing infants and children, birth through 6, from across the Greater New Orleans area.Speech comes to most of us fairly easily, but for children with a hearing loss or...
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