Untangling Spoken Words ; Audio Disorder Scrambles Sounds, Confuses the Brain
The Washington Times › March 11, 2008
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Be ing able to listen to two conversations at once - an intriguing one filled with gossip and one not so interesting but directed to the listener - might be an inherited skill, according to research by the National Institutes of Health.
The listener uses changes in pitch, the direction of sound, time delays between different sounds, and the onset, or the starting and stopping, of speech to separate the two conversations, says Didier Depireux, assistant professor of anatomy and neurobiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.See the full content of this document
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Untangling Spoken Words ; Audio Disorder Scrambles Sounds, Confuses the Brain
A listener with an auditory processing disorder (APD) - a broad and complex group of disorders that make it difficult to process the spoken language even though hearing acuity is fine - will find it hard to extract the different sounds and focus on one sound source, says Mr....
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