The sense of hearing contributes to our survival as humans and plays a major emotional role. Hearing is about listening and understanding what others say, express, and do, it is about being able to respond to them and join with their activities. Yet not...
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The sense of hearing contributes to our survival as humans and plays a major emotional role. Hearing is about listening and understanding what others say, express, and do, it is about being able to respond to them and join with their activities. Yet not only is this sense fragile, we also do not take care of it. We willingly expose our ears to frequent concert-going and headphone use, for example, and not so willingly to urban noise pollution. To make matters worse, the sensory structures that decipher sounds cannot regenerate: their destruction is permanent. Luckily, research in this field is in full swing. Although there are still no cures, impressive rehabilitation techniques have now proved successful and we can hope to be able to treat certain forms of hearing loss in the decades to come.
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