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Your next hearing aid could be a video game

  • Written by Dana Boebinger, Ph.D. student in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology, Harvard University
Video games can help train the brain to hear better.Monika Wisniewska/Shutterstock.com

Roughly 15 percent of Americans report some sort of hearing difficulty; trouble understanding conversations in noisy environments is one of the most common complaints. Unfortunately, there’s not much doctors or audiologists can do. Hearing aids can amplify...

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