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This is not that surprising. Sensory enrichment stimulates hippocampal growth and staves off cognitive decline. Long term sensory deprivation has the opposite e
by macrolime 3y ago
This is not that surprising. Sensory enrichment stimulates hippocampal growth and staves off cognitive decline. Long term sensory deprivation has the opposite effect. Getting poor hearing at old age for example results in a large increase in the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
- joker_minmax 3y agoI took one of my older relatives to an audiologist recently, and the physician told us that the memory issues are often because your working memory is working overtime to decipher every input and you don't get to commit as much to long-term memory.