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1. What is the relationship between hearing and cognitive ability?
A major goal is to understand the relationship between thinking, remembering, and hearing. We are currently exploring the way that hearing loss affects memory, language, attention, and what that tells us about cognitive health in aging.
2. How does noise and hearing ability affect how we converse with others?
We stay connected to others in many ways, but face-to-face interactions are some of our closest and most important social experiences. Research shows that when we talk with another person, our brain activity and mannerisms for listening are quite different compared to when we listen alone. We want to understand these behaviours, how they shape our sense of social cooperation and connection, and what happens to them if a person has hearing loss.
3. How does hearing loss affect perception and cognition in senses other than hearing?
Another goal is to understand how other senses, like vision, adapt to hearing loss, and what changes in the brain support this. Does hearing loss change the way a person uses vision to understand speech?
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