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How Hearing Loss Changes the Way Your Brain Processes Sound

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We don’t hear with our ears alone...we process sound with our brains. The inner ear converts sound into electrical signals, but the auditory cortex must organize and interpret them as speech, music, and meaningful sounds. When hearing loss reduces or distorts the information reaching the brain, sound processing becomes more difficult....

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