#hearingloss — 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

What even what the fuck.

https://help.uw.co.uk/article/extra_help/Contact-and-Communication-Support/relay-uk-support-for-customers-who-cant-use-a-phone-in-the-usual-way

#disability #disabled #ND #neurodivergent #sensory #deaf #HoH #hearing #HearingLoss #access #accessibility #EaseOfAccess #telephone #phone #PhoneCall

#CFP

Special Collection – Music & Hearing Loss
Now accepting submissions to Music & Science (SAGE)

Research on how hearing loss impacts music perception, performance & appreciation—and how to improve access across all levels of hearing.

Open to psychology, audiology, music, HCI, engineering, and more.

📅 Rolling deadline

https://journals.sagepub.com/topic/collections-mns/mns-1-music_and_hearing_loss/mns

#MusicPerception #Audiology #HearingLoss #MusicScience

The Trouble with Trebles

umbú asks "How can I translate my hearing test results to a music player's graphic equalizer so that I can boost certain frequencies to match how a recorded music track is meant to sound?" and flug replies, "Hmm, just by complete chance I've spent the past several days messing around with just exactly this ... and the end result is, my $20 or $40 headphones end up sounding as good as $200 or $400 models." Tons of great info here!

https://ask.metafilter.com/381974/How-do-hearing-test-results-translate-to-a-graphic-equalizer#5420014

#audio #audiology #earphones #equalizer #frequencies #hearing #HearingLoss #sound

Time for a new #Introduction . I’m a Lecturer in #Neuroscience in #London at the #UniversityOfRoehampton . I study #NoiseExposure & #HearingLoss & how it affects #AuditoryProcessing , #Audiology , & #Hearing ; particularly #SpeechInNoise & #PredictiveCoding . I focus on #HiddenHearingLoss noise exposure & I’m really interested in the intersection between noise exposure & #Neurodivergent conditions like #Autism & #Schizophrenia .

My home is a #Boat & most of my pictures here involve my #Cat .

@erictopol Eh, this is not particularly persuasive on it's own:

"Secondly, due to data restrictions, this study did not include audiological data such as pure tone thresholds or speech audiometry of the diagnosed patients."

I don't put a great deal of trust into studies that rely on restrospective analysis of diagnostic codes.

#Auditory #Audiology #COVID #Science #HearingLoss

@gyokusai The closed captions quality on GO2 really is horrid

#HoH #HardOfHearing #deaf #DeafAwareness #HearingLoss

I have a cochlear implant and without it, things are completely silent. Mentally though, my brain sometimes scrambles to fill in the gaps and imagine sounds that aren’t real and this often takes the form of a droning noise that gets louder the more I notice it, like an auditory pink elephant. There’s also the occasional faint illegible voice to spice things up - I swear I’m not going mad.

#deaf #cochlearimplant #audiology #technology #hearingloss #disability #accessibility #mentalhealth #hearing #speechprocessor #deafawareness