Imagine that your hearing sensitivity for pure tones is exquisite—not affected by frequent exposure to loud music or other noises—but that you have great problems in understanding speech even in a quiet environment. This occurs if you have a temporal…
3.1 Multimodal Auditory Cortical Areas Examples in Chapter 2 , Brain Plasticity and Perceptual Learning show that perceptual learning is more efficient when the training is multisensorial. Here we will review that combining the information from different senses is essential…
The brain—young as well as adult—has the capacity to adapt in response to changes in the external environment, to changes in the sensory input due to peripheral injury such as hearing loss, and as a result of training (perceptual learning).…
Hearing loss comprises reduced sensitivity for pure tones (the audiogram) and problems in the understanding of speech. The loss of sensitivity results from deficits in the transmission of sound via the middle ear and/or loss of transduction of mechanical vibrations…