I ended last week’s article, Hearing and Cognition, with this message:
When people can’t hear well and don’t move well, they’re even more likely to withdraw, think less, and this perpetuates the cycle of decline.
To stay cognitively healthy, people need adequate hearing acuity, and they need to be able to interpret what they’re hearing. These two ingredients support cognition.
Maintaining the ability to hear, both having adequate acuity and being able to understand what we hear (auditory processing), is vital to retaining good brain health, regardless of our age. In my next article, I will discuss how to improve auditory processing ability.
Here’s my next article!
Improving Auditory Processing
Neuroplastic approaches and changing the environment to make it easier for the brain to interpret hearing will improve auditory processing.
To learn how to interpret sensory information, the brain needs something to go on. Remember my puzzle example? Here it is in case you forgot:
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