#audiology — Public Fediverse posts

Can you hear the beep? 👂

An audiogram measures something extremely useful: the quietest pure tone we can detect at different frequencies.

But:
Detection ≠ Attention ≠ Understanding

Real hearing means extracting a voice from noise, recognising incomplete information, localising sound, adapting to change — and doing all of that comfortably and without unreasonable cognitive effort.

My new HybridMind42 article asks a simple question:
Are we measuring hearing loss, or measuring enough of human hearing to understand what a person actually needs?

The audiogram isn't the problem.
Don't break the tool. Define its proper boundaries.

https://hybridmind42.substack.com/p/can-you-hear-the-beep?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac

#HybridMind42 #Audiology #Hearing #HearingLoss #HearingAids #Tinnitus #Neuroscience #HumanPerception #ScienceCommunication

Anybody here going to Forum Acusticum #FA2023 in Torino next week? My team will be there in force with 3 oral presentations:

• 12 September (11:40 - 12:00): Alejandro Osses “Using auditory models to mimic human listeners in reverse correlation experiments from the fastACI toolbox” (https://hal.science/hal-04186363/document)
• 13 September (17:20 - 17:40): Laurianne Cabrera “Development of Auditory Sensitivity to Amplitude Modulation Cues: Sensory and Cognitive Determinants and Relationship With Speech Intelligibility”
• 14 September (11:00 - 11:20): Géraldine Carranante “Auditory Reverse Correlation applied to the study of place and voicing: four new phoneme-discrimination tasks” (https://hal.science/hal-04130939v1/document)
  #ForumAcusticum2023 #ForumAcusticum @psycholinguistics #acustics #audiology #auditory #psycholinguistics

Do you have questions about sensation and perception, hearing and hearing loss, aural/oral communication disorders, or sensory aids?

Reply to this toot and I'll answer it as best as I can. Please note I'm not a medical doctor so I can't give you specific medical advice.

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I think we need to wrestle with this when thinking about #HearingAids and #CochlearImplants. What evidence do we have, what quality is the evidence, and how does this conflict with regulations, norms, and insurers who gatekeep access to care? Should we shift audiologists away from pumping pure tones for The Man to prescribe a device, and instead train audiologists as "communication therapists" (akin to occupational or physical therapy)?

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14777509231169898

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