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I’ve heard garbled words over a bad connection that I didn’t understand, only to have my brain parse them seconds later without intentional effort. It makes me

I’ve heard garbled words over a bad connection that I didn’t understand, only to have my brain parse them seconds later without intentional effort. It makes me wonder, is the language center processing the memorized version of sound here or is it reprocessing at the lower level?

SllX 4y ago
This is basically an everyday experience for me, and not limited to telephone calls. My hearing is not great, and I’ll often ask someone to repeat something only to finally finish parsing it about a second after I asked because in the intervening time my brain reconstructed a signal from a bunch of noise.
- foobazgt 4y ago
  I've had the same experience my entire life. That said, testing shows my hearing isn't great, but it's not horrible either. I even have an exceptional ability to identify actors solely by their voice when others can't identify them at all. I've often wondered if there is something else going on that runs deeper than just surface level "hearing". Like I'm hearing slower but more deeply.
  - SllX 4y ago
    I don’t know if I’m hearing more deeply, but basically the same experience: failed every hearing test I ever took but I’m not deaf either. Just need to rely more on post-processing than others, and the best I’ve been able to figure is I didn’t get enough socialization at critical points of my early development, which is true, I just can’t prove that it’s also related to my hearing.
  - bqmjjx0kac 4y ago
    Congratulations, you might have APD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder I suspect I have it, too. I seem to experience sound differently than other people. Separating voices from background noise is HARD, but I'm also very good (I think) at recognizing actors by voice.
- _yb2s 4y ago
  Fascinating... this happens to me a lot also, but I never really realized what I was experiencing until reading your comment. Later on I will feel guilty asking people to repeat things when I actually understood them. I never considered what you are saying, that I didn't yet have the information when I asked them, but later did. I often wonder if my hearing is poor, or if I am just overly sensitive to the possibility of mis-hearing people, that I would rather err on the side of confusion. I overhear a lot of other people talking that I can tell misunderstand each other, but neither are aware, and I wouldn't want to do that.

SllX 4y ago

This is basically an everyday experience for me, and not limited to telephone calls. My hearing is not great, and I’ll often ask someone to repeat something only to finally finish parsing it about a second after I asked because in the intervening time my brain reconstructed a signal from a bunch of noise.

foobazgt 4y ago
I've had the same experience my entire life. That said, testing shows my hearing isn't great, but it's not horrible either. I even have an exceptional ability to identify actors solely by their voice when others can't identify them at all. I've often wondered if there is something else going on that runs deeper than just surface level "hearing". Like I'm hearing slower but more deeply.
- SllX 4y ago
  I don’t know if I’m hearing more deeply, but basically the same experience: failed every hearing test I ever took but I’m not deaf either. Just need to rely more on post-processing than others, and the best I’ve been able to figure is I didn’t get enough socialization at critical points of my early development, which is true, I just can’t prove that it’s also related to my hearing.
- bqmjjx0kac 4y ago
  Congratulations, you might have APD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder I suspect I have it, too. I seem to experience sound differently than other people. Separating voices from background noise is HARD, but I'm also very good (I think) at recognizing actors by voice.
_yb2s 4y ago
Fascinating... this happens to me a lot also, but I never really realized what I was experiencing until reading your comment. Later on I will feel guilty asking people to repeat things when I actually understood them. I never considered what you are saying, that I didn't yet have the information when I asked them, but later did. I often wonder if my hearing is poor, or if I am just overly sensitive to the possibility of mis-hearing people, that I would rather err on the side of confusion. I overhear a lot of other people talking that I can tell misunderstand each other, but neither are aware, and I wouldn't want to do that.