August 1, 2015
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Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmHow Hearing Works [Video]
A primer on the way our ears work accompanies an article in Scientific American about a common but undiagnosed form of auditory damage
By Gary Stix
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A decline in hearing acuity is not only an occurrence that happens in the aged. An article in the August Scientific American by M. Charles Liberman, a professor of otology and laryngology at Harvard Medical School and director of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, focuses on relatively recent discoveries that show the din of a concert or high-decibel machine noise is enough to cause some level of hearing damage. After reading the article check out this video by medical illustrator Brandon Pletsch and its narrated animation explaining how the sensory system that detects sound functions.
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