Only a Person with Hearing Loss Can Tell You This
Dear Readers: During this holiday season, the editors at Hearing Health & Technology Matters (HHTM) are taking some time off. However, we are not leaving you without anything to read on our blog this week. Instead, we are publishing a special holiday edition filled with what we call our Readers’ Choices. Our Readers’ Choices featured…
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Top Down vs Bottom-Up: The Battle to Understand Speech
by Kathi Mestayer Top-down grabs wheel, runs into ditch There are two different ways in which we make sense out of speech – “top-down” and “bottom-up.” I first read about this in The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker, in which he describes how we take sound input and make sense of it as speech. Let’s…
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