I don't mean to trivialize a serious problem, but my students seem to speak
as if they have lost their high frequency hearing as well. In California at
least, students seem to learn to speak without any consonants at all as in:
Person 1: ow oo ooin
Person 2 ?
Translation: How ar
Before hearing aids could be made small enough to
be put in the ear, speakers were placed under the arm which functioned like
hearing aids. Currently hearing aids can only go so far for an
individual. It seems to me a new generation of under the arm hearing
enhancement devices could help
Thank you Steve and Paul.
The book is actually much less about deafness than it is a memoir of
hearing loss, with interwoven information about the psychology of hearing
and hearing loss, and about new hearing technologies. For anyone
who might be interested, we've created a web page
I thought, just possibly, some TIPSters might have a personal or
teaching-related interest in a just-published little book on the psychology
of hearing, hearing loss, and new hearing-assistive technologies. For
information about *A Quiet World: Living with Hearing Loss* see
www.davidmyers.org
Beth Benoit wrote:
> This discussion reminds me of an article I read fairly recently -
> and of course can't find now - about people who associate colors with
> numbers. I thought the article was in Discover Magazine,
No need to worry, Beth! You're not losing your mind, or at least
this isn'
wing on synesthesia on page 676 of the
'Principles' which might be indirectly related to this discussion:
"Bleuler and Lehmann some years ago called attention to a strange idiosyncrasy
found in some persons, and consisting in the fact that impressions on the eye,
skin, etc., were ac
Title: Re: Seeing thunder and hearing lightning
This discussion reminds me of an article I read fairly recently -
and of course can't find now - about people who associate colors with
numbers. I thought the article was in Discover Magazine,
but didn't recognize it on the website
OK, I have an answer. David Epstein helpfully sent me a copy of
the new ferret papers and commentary in _Nature_, since my
library is being so pokey about receiving them. In the _News
and Views_ commentary on the experiments, Merzenich (Nature, 404,
April 20, 2000, p. 821) mentions the famous spe
