How Hearing Loss Affects Memory and Thinking

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How Hearing Loss Affects Memory and Thinking
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Do you feel like you need more time to process
conversations? Do you find it difficult to
communicate in noisy environments?
Imagine you are watching television and the
program stops for a commercial break. You
quickly compose a mental list of tasks and set
off to get everything done before the program
resumes. Your thought process is as follows Go
to the refrigerator, get a drink, get a snack,
check e-mail, and hurry back. However, as the
word e-mail pops into your head, you suddenly
remember that you need to notify your colleague
at work the meeting scheduled for the next
morning has been postponed. The next moment you
find yourself staring into the refrigerator
thinking, What am I looking for?
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How does this relate to hearing?
Working memory is highly involved in
communication in complex and challenging acoustic
conditions, especially for hearing-impaired
persons when the auditory input is degraded. For
example, while conversing in a noisy environment,
people need to store information in their working
memory to make sense of subsequent information.
A hearing loss may force the brain to devote too
much of its energy to processing sound, and at
the expense of energy spent on memory and
thinking. When rapid processing is required and
the system is stressed, the effects of hearing
loss become even more apparent.
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What are the possible solutions?
Hearing aids helps users to fill in the
blanks. The aim of a hearing aid is to improve
the clarity of speech in a challenging listening
environment. Hearing aids achieve this by
amplifying speech sounds and minimising annoying
background sounds through advanced noise
reduction systems. By improving the clarity of
speech in noisy environments, this places less
strain upon the brain and allows you to enjoy
group conversations with minimal listening
effort. Studies have shown hearing aids can
improve- - Quality of life - Working
memory -Social and emotional function -Communicati
on either one-on-one or in group settings
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Hearing aid features that can help you in noise

• Advanced noise reduction programs in modern
  hearing aids provide an easier-to-listen-to
  signal in annoying and noisy situations.
• Wireless connectivity allows multiple sound
  sources to be delivered to both ears, improving
  sound quality as well as the ability to
  discriminate speech from noise.
• Open fittings help preserve many natural acoustic
  cues and likely enhance spatial fidelity.
• Advanced Feedback management through phase
  cancellation facilitates more high frequency
  gain. I.e. helps preserve high frequency speech
  sounds.
• FM systems substantially improve the
  signal-to-noise ratio while reducing or
  eliminating background noise and reverb.

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