Lol, no dude. I forgot what the thread was called. This guy could "see" buildings a mile away from sonar IIRC. Simply unbelievable the feats humans can achieve to adapt to their environment.
How does she speak so well without ever hearing her voice or anyone elses? Yes she is good looking and I love her tat.
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Well, that kind of changes everything. Then the title of this video is misleading: she was NOT, in fact, hearing for the first time, but rather hearing for the first time with the implant. If she had hearing aids, then she had some level of hearing at some point. Her brain had experienced sound before. Her clear speech is not so amazing any more. Still a nice video, but not exactly what it claims to be.
No, even with a lifetime partial hearing loss she should not enunciate that well. And in her "explanation" she said she was diagnosed as profound loss. None of that adds up.
http://sarahchurman.blogspot.com/2011/09/my-ear-in-his-heart.html Spoiler apparently she will be on The Today Show monday
Actually what she said was "severe to profound", which means her hearing threshold was probably somewhere in the 90db range (see link here.). And while that is obviously a substantial hearing loss, it is not complete. Just as an example, here are some db levels for day-to-day things: * Aircraft at take-off (180) * Fireworks (140) * Snowmobile (120) * Chain saw (110) * Amplified music (110) * Lawn mower (90) * Noisy office (90) * Vacuum cleaner (80) * City traffic (80) * Normal conversation (60) * Refrigerator humming (40) * Whisper (20) * Leaves rustling (10) * Calm breathing (10) So while her hearing may have deteriorated over time, and she probably ended up with complete or near-complete hearing loss, if she was at some point "severe", as she stated, then she could hear things 90db and above. Which would mean that sound was not completely foreign to her mental processes. And with a hearing aid, that threshold was probably altered by a few db. That could account for her clear speech. Again, not saying it's not a great video, it just doesn't really seem to be a person "hearing for the first time" as it states.
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I thought so too, but I just kind of chalked that up to the fact that she was probably just trying to be super-professional and go through all of the questions she has probably been taught to ask and trying to stay unemotional about it. Still kind of put a damper on the video.
I imagine they are probably trained to be as clinical as possible to be a stabilizing force of reassurance during all that emotion.
temporarily banned for posting D&D threads in Hangout, then sheepishly returned as an alias, eventually exposing himself with many posts about Ron Paul, heartwarming viral videos, and questions about how to recharge a battery. commodore is knocking necrobumps out of the park this week!
Being blind scares the **** out of me. Now that i think about it what if that was life for everyone. Like we had inventions that allowed us to see virtual roads to drive places and computer monitors to get work done. How far someone goes in life would be based strictly on skill and intelligence, and it would have nothing to do with looks.
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