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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Tipping Points: When I Knew Hearing Aids Weren’t Enough
My guest writer this week is Marge Cohen who writes about the long slope – in this case, a ski slope – from hearing aids to a cochlear implant. By Marge Cohen For my family, skiing is one of our beloved winter activities. We love to hit the slopes as often as we can. And…
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