Your world is filled with sound — sounds you don’t want to miss, like your grandchild in the school play or a phone conversation with an old friend. This year, refresh your connection with the sounds of your world with...
How Age Affects Speech Comprehension
Recent research has provided a wealth of new information about hearing loss and the brain, from where hearing actually happens — in the brain, not the ears — to how hearing loss can lead to issues such as dementia and...
How Hearing Really Works
New research is helping us to understand exactly how our brains pick up speech and turn it into useful thoughts. Hearing and understanding the world around you isn’t entirely your ears’ job, according to the results of a study conducted...
How Hearing Really Works
New research is helping us to understand exactly how our brains pick up speech and turn it into useful thoughts. Hearing and understanding the world around you isn’t entirely your ears’ job, according to the results of a study conducted...
Hearing — and Understanding — the World Around You Takes More Than Your Ears
In a noisy, crowded room, your brain can pick up subtle parts of speech and automatically arrange them into useful thoughts. Ever wondered how this miraculous feat happens? Well, new research brings us closer to understanding just that. Researchers at...
Keep Your Hearing Close to Your Heart
Over the past 80 years, a plethora of studies have tied the health of your ears to the health of your cardiovascular system — your heart, arteries, and veins. What studies are showing is the possibility of your ears being...