Hearing Loss Sharpens Peripheral Vision by Quieting Visual Cortex Neurons
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Summary
Does losing your hearing improve your sight? A new study reveals that adult-onset hearing loss enhances peripheral visual clarity through an unexpected mechanism: dampening neural activity to make visual processing more efficient.
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