Sounds of My Father
Noppe shares how he gave in to his hearing loss and got his first pair of hearing aids. Hearing is a complex perceptual event. His audiologist showed him a slide of what a normal ciliated inner ear looked like--rich and lush in a forest of layered transducers of sound. His ear, however, most likely...
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| Published in: | JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 304; no. 14; pp. 1535 - 1536 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago
American Medical Association
13-10-2010
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| Online Access: | Get full text |
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| Summary: | Noppe shares how he gave in to his hearing loss and got his first pair of hearing aids. Hearing is a complex perceptual event. His audiologist showed him a slide of what a normal ciliated inner ear looked like--rich and lush in a forest of layered transducers of sound. His ear, however, most likely looked like a parched desert with a few sprouts of scrub brush here and there. |
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| ISSN: | 0098-7484 1538-3598 |
| DOI: | 10.1001/jama.2010.1404 |