Echoes can help our brains learn to pick up sounds better

A bearded man with glasses is frowning as he has a hard to hear conversation on his phone in a noisy room.

Our brains learn to ‘listen to the room’, and this can help us understand speech in noisy, echo-filled spaces, says new research.

David McAlpine is Distinguished Professor of Hearing, Language and the Brain, and Academic Director of Macquarie University Hearing. He joined Cameron Furlong on the Thursday Daily this morning to fill us in.

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