Darkness Improves Hearing?Scientists in the journal Neuron have found a way to boost the hearing in mice simply by keeping them in the dark for a week.
This temporary loss of visual input seems to trigger favorable changes in areas of the brain that process auditory information...
The study builds on research showing that people who are blind from birth can often do remarkable things with their other senses. "Blind people seem to have supernormal abilities in the auditory domain," Kanold says. "They are better in discriminating different frequencies or discriminating sound locations.
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