Discover the crucial role your brain plays in hearing

Learn how your ears pick up sound and deliver it to your brain, and how noise and hearing loss can obstruct the process.

You hear with your brain - not just your ears

Your ears gather the sounds around you. But your brain is the true hero. It naturally makes sense of a constant stream of raw sound information – guiding you, keeping you aware, and connecting you with others.

Your brain transforms sound into meaning

Explore the fascinating path that sound takes as it travels in through your ears and all the way through the auditory system and into your brain.

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Why is speech so hard to hear in noisy places?

Understanding what people are saying in noisy situations is especially difficult. In fact, it’s the number one issue faced by people with hearing loss.

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