
Cognitive Hearing Loss: When the Brain Struggles to Hear
It is a widespread misconception that hearing begins and ends with the ears, but the reality is more complex. However, the ability to perceive sound is equally dependent on the auditory cortex as it is on the physical ear. Cognitive hearing refers to the specific neural capacity to decode and assign meaning to the acoustic signals captured by the ears. For example, you might hear someone speaking clearly, but still struggle to understand what they said. The functional space between