Airplanes and Ear Pains
April 19th, 2017Posted in Blog
While most ear discomfort during air travel is nothing more than an annoyance, what happens when it becomes more serious? Unfortunately, the ear pain and pressure can lead to severe pain and hearing loss. So what really happens to ears when we fly? Normally the air pressure inside the middle ear (a small cavity of air behind the eardrum) and
Read MoreResearchers Connect Hearing Effectiveness to Hands and Motor Skills
April 5th, 2017Posted in Blog
A study presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, is the first to match human behavior with left brain/right brain auditory processing tasks. Before this research, neuroimaging tests had hinted at differences in such processing. “Language is processed mainly in the left hemisphere, and some have suggested that this is because the
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