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- Why does turning your head often improve hearing in noisy situations?
I have long found myself turning my head fairly quickly when a noise steps on something I'm trying to hear. Sometimes it is just a noise like a bang or a pop that steps on a conversation I'm listening to, and sometimes it will happen when another person starts to speak and interferes with a conversation that is already going on.
I'd assumed up to now that it was the slewing phase of the sound getting to my two ears while I turned my head that helped my brain to process out the noise and focus better on what I'm trying to hear, but I did a Google search this morning and found that it may actually be that the right ear is the preferred ear for the best sound processing. Now that I see that, I do think that is the direction that I've always been turning my head.
Has anybody seen research about the slewing phase aspect of human sound processing? Or is it just as simple as the right ear (and the corresponding area of the brain) being better? Thanks.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science...-ear-sound-helps-hear-better-scientists-find/
https://www.prima.co.uk/diet-and-he...s/a41735/hearing-problems-turn-head-to-right/
I'd assumed up to now that it was the slewing phase of the sound getting to my two ears while I turned my head that helped my brain to process out the noise and focus better on what I'm trying to hear, but I did a Google search this morning and found that it may actually be that the right ear is the preferred ear for the best sound processing. Now that I see that, I do think that is the direction that I've always been turning my head.
Has anybody seen research about the slewing phase aspect of human sound processing? Or is it just as simple as the right ear (and the corresponding area of the brain) being better? Thanks.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science...-ear-sound-helps-hear-better-scientists-find/
https://www.prima.co.uk/diet-and-he...s/a41735/hearing-problems-turn-head-to-right/