Research Shows Role Empathy Plays in Music
Can people who show empathy better interpret emotions conveyed through music? A new study by an international team of researchers suggests the abilities are linked.
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Loud Live Music Versus Loud Recorded Music
During this time of Covid, we haven’t been able to attend live concerts, symphonies, or opera events. While musicians are just now beginning to perform live for the first time in months, if not years, the question arises about the dynamics (loud/soft features) of loud music.
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Plural Publishing Releases ‘Music and Hearing Aids’
“Music and Hearing Aids: A Clinical Approach” by Marshall Chasin, AuD, is a book written for hearing health care professionals working with hard-of-hearing musicians and music lovers.
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University of Illinois Researchers Use Sonification to Understand Science
A team of researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is using sonification – the use of sound to convey information – to depict biochemical processes and better understand how they happen.
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Musician Scott Simons Uses Widex Moment Hearing Aids
One night, while wearing the old brand and watching sports at a local restaurant, Simons noticed he was having trouble separating the sound of the TVs from that of the conversations around him. He swapped to the Widex MOMENT pair for comparison and everything changed.
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Hearing Aids Are Now Up to 109 dB!
The input-related dynamic range of modern hearing aids is important to know in order to prevent distortion and input-clipping of louder sounds in the environment. Typical loud input sounds are music and the level of a hearing aid consumer’s own voice.
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Sensaphonics Helps Rashawn Ross Maintain Hearing Health
With the amount of sound exposure that comes with being a touring musician, Ross has come to realize how critical it is to keep his volume levels in check – especially with the long shows that Dave Matthews Band is known for.
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Healthy Hearing Wins Three Digital Health Awards
Healthy Hearing received three awards: a silver award for an article on cognitive decline and hearing loss, a merit award for a column on musicians with tinnitus, and a bronze award in the directory/ratings/guides category for their consumer-reviewed directory of providers.
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Knowles Partners with Lucid Hearing
Knowles and Lucid Hearing, a hearing aid company, have partnered to bring the hearing health industry the Westone Audio High Fidelity DWT, a hearing aid with a Receiver in Canal (RIC) that delivers “exceptional sound quality for music listening.”
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Sensaphonics’ 3D Active Ambient System Used by Dave Amato of REO Speedwagon
Dave Amato, lead guitarist of REO Speedwagon, shares his experiences (and audiograms!) regarding in-ear monitors that have helped save his residual hearing. “Dr Santucci made it very clear to me that I had to change and start wearing both earpieces if I wanted to save my hearing,” says Amato. “…It changed my life.”
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Singing Adult Men May Produce More Respiratory Aerosols
Is singing worse than talking when it comes to how many particles are being emitted? Yes, according to the study. And the louder one talks or sings, the worse the emissions. A person’s age and whether they are male or female also affects their respiratory emissions, with males and adults emitting more airborne particles, on average, than females and minors.
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40 Years of Consumer Comments: Making Hearing Aid Feedback and Occlusion Past History
For decades, feedback and occlusion had posed huge problems for hearing aid users. Today, technical advances have nearly consigned these side-effects to history.
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HHF Releases New Video for ‘Protect Your Hearing Month’
Marking October’s National Protect Your Hearing Month, Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) announced that it is releasing the first of a new video series called “A Few Words About Hearing” that captures the stories of nine people—from all walks of life—who describe what it’s like to live with hearing damaged by loud noise.
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Understanding the Sound Mind: An Interview with Nina Kraus, PhD
Nina Kraus, PhD, is the Hugh Knowles Professor of Neurobiology in the Department of Communication Sciences and Otolaryngology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Through her research and those of her colleagues in the Kraus Lab, she has continually uncovered new findings about auditory processing and the brain, as well as our lives in sound—findings that have great consequences for young children and their exposure to music, as well as for people with language disorders, concussion, cognitive issues, hearing loss, and more.
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Making Musical Performance Safer During COVID-19
Researchers reporting in “ACS Environmental Au” have studied aerosol production from playing wind instruments, singing, and acting, allowing them to develop recommendations to minimize COVID transmission.
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