Chronicle of a deaf audiologist

Working memory and hearing difficulties

If you are struggling to hear, it can lead to “I don’t know” answers, even if you do know.

Research has found that people with a stronger working memory capacity will hear better in noise.

If you’re in a situation with lots of background noise, whether you have hearing loss or not, your working memory capacity is going to take a hit. Hearing loss thus has the potential to affect working memory capacity because hearing loss makes it harder to hear in noisy situations.

Working memory capacity is not fixed! It can be strengthened through auditory training with the Lace AI program. Find out more at How does Auditory Training Help?

  • Photo credit:  © Alan Fortune

    Sandra Vandenhoff

    Dr. Sandra Vandenhoff is an audiologist with hearing loss, founder of HEARa, Hearing Rehabilitation teacher, and Canadian author, who does not remember saying on her first day of wearing hearing aids: "Mom, I can hear my shoelaces!"

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