The successful navigation of complex everyday environments with multiple sensory inputs—such as restaurants, busy streets, and other social settings—relies on the brain’s ability to organize the barrage of information into discrete perceptual objects on which cognitive processes, such as selective attention, can act.
Silent Owls Inspire Quiet Design
Night owls produce about 18 decibels lower sound than other birds at the same speeds. This, the scientists explain, is largely due to their “unique wing formation.”
Advancing Discoveries via Biologist-Friendly Access to Multi-Omic Data
Data processing that analyzes a large amount of data about individual cells and measures them through multiple “omics” (such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, epigenomics, and metabolomics) have advanced our understanding of biological sciences and medicine in an unprecedented way.
Sorting the Priorities
The audiologist listened to my shock and confusion, but confirmed that my test printout showed severe hearing loss. She did one other brief test, which showed 95 percent word recognition. I always hear conversations, so how could I have all this hearing loss?
The Surprising Cause of My Tinnitus
This ominous ringing seemed to recede when I was preoccupied with something else, but it returned in force as soon as nothing else was distracting me, and it was always (seemingly) there, not loud enough to interfere with my life really, but distracting and worrisome.
HHF Welcomes Two New Board Members
HHF welcomes two new members to our Board of Directors this spring, supplementing our research and medical expertise and bringing specific insights on hearing loss from excess noise and cochlear implantation.
The Link Between Diabetes and Hearing
When a family member received a diagnosis of diabetes more than seven years ago, as an audiologist I tried to find information related to hearing problems associated with diabetes. I realized few people knew about the research connecting hearing loss and balance issues to this chronic disease.
College Scholarship Contest for High School Seniors
Hearing Health Foundation is proud to partner with fellow nonprofit Help America Hear, which since 2004 has worked to raise awareness and provide financial assistance to those with visual and/or auditory impairments. As part of this effort, Help America Hear awards five high school seniors each a pair of new hearing aids and $2,000 to use for higher education.
#LoveYourEars
On World Hearing Day every March 3, Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) joins with the global community to raise awareness of hearing health and the need to protect our hearing. This year we are launching a 60-second video to help promote a major culture shift around how we think about protecting our hearing and hearing protection.
Let’s Remember No One Hears Perfectly
Why can’t all of us with hearing loss accept our hearing challenges without judgment? It’s a physical disability that we have no control over. If we can’t hear, it has nothing to do with our intelligence or any of the negative stereotypes of hearing loss. It’s just hearing loss—a physical condition.