Say what? Better hearing takes practice

    This article is ordered from general to more specific things. The tone of this article is curious because the author sounds like he/she agrees with the scientists' idea. This article is explaining that it is very difficult to have a conversation in a noisy restaurant or loud environment, but with a little practice the brain can learn to hear above the noise.This article also explains how if elderly exercise their brain and memorize what different letters and words sound like then they are more likely to have a better conversation in a loud environment.  Studies show that when elderly practice they can actually hear and understand things better in a loud environment.
            "Neural slowing especially affects our ability to hear in a noisy background because the sounds we need to hear are acoustically less salient and because noise also taxes our ability to remember what we hear" says a Neuroscientist. Neural Slowing happens when you can't hear or understand what someone is saying over background noise. "They would listen to words and sentences—all with varying levels of background noise—and had to repeat back what they heard" the scientist experimented in a lab. The scientist would experiment to try to get people to exercise their brain. "Researchers also recorded brain activity to measure how quickly the brain registered hearing the syllable "da" over background noise" researchers studied how quickly the brain processed a sound or syllable. 
        From reading this article this means that for when we get older we need to exercise our brains and make sure that we can still hear people over background noises. This article taught me about why some people have a hard time hearing over loud noise.