20Q: Noise, Aging and the Brain

– How Experience and Training Can Improve Communication

by Nina Kraus

Learning a foreign language – or learning how to play an instrument – can improve your hearing in noisy situations later in life. Studies show that “hearing in noise ability does in fact improve with short-term software-based training. An exciting line of research that we would like to pursue is what happens when older people take up music lessons. I suspect that because playing an instrument is more inherently rewarding than brain-training computer programs, it should be even more effective.”

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