It's been 22 months since my stroke. I've trained myself to play records 1 handed. Not my dominant hand before the stroke as well. Not as difficult as learning to write, but difficult none the less.
I've been listening to records for 8 months and during that time my hearing a changed.just one of many right sided defeciencies. At first I had no right side soundstage information. I didn't miss anything it just wasn't there. Voices were in the middle and I could pick up left sided spatial information, but right sided seemed to be in the middle.
Over the months my brain as figured it out and now left and right are the same.
It strikes me this could be the source of our hearing differences. They are not subjective but are more complex than that. Their origins are in our brains and the differing ways they work.
Differences in hearing.
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Re: Differences in hearing.
DQ - nice to hear you are improving.
I have Menier's disease which affects my left ear (it is generally one sided). I have both loss of high frequencies and stronger tinnitus on the left. As well as degrading my balance I need to place my chair a little more to the left to compensate. When I turn my good ear to the speakers, there is a little more in the stereo sound stage but it's not a lot. Basically, my brain compensates as well as it can and the loss is small.
I still ejnoy my music.
I have Menier's disease which affects my left ear (it is generally one sided). I have both loss of high frequencies and stronger tinnitus on the left. As well as degrading my balance I need to place my chair a little more to the left to compensate. When I turn my good ear to the speakers, there is a little more in the stereo sound stage but it's not a lot. Basically, my brain compensates as well as it can and the loss is small.
I still ejnoy my music.
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Re: Differences in hearing.
Interesting Dan. The human brain is certainly capable of a large degree of "retraining".
I myself wear varifocal glasses and I was convinced that I would never be able to get used to the strange effect, but now I wouldn't know I was wearing them. My ex mother-in-law also wears one single contact lens for her distance vision and says that she wouldn't know she was only wearing one.
I myself wear varifocal glasses and I was convinced that I would never be able to get used to the strange effect, but now I wouldn't know I was wearing them. My ex mother-in-law also wears one single contact lens for her distance vision and says that she wouldn't know she was only wearing one.
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Re: Differences in hearing.
See the classic experiment using upside down glasses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upside_down_goggles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upside_down_goggles
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Re: Differences in hearing.
Yes I saw a Docu on this many year ago (1960s) and the brain is amazing, like Dan the stroke got my right side, but I just swore at it a lot now I can walk and speak but I need a stick, I hated the F-----g wheelchair bloody stupid thing, it kept try to roll me under busses when I tried sing along with Deep Purple badly I may add slurred and sounding like snails mating.
It can be done so imagine it.
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Re: Differences in hearing.
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Re: Differences in hearing.
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