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Dear AuditoryListers
This was launched today ... we encourage you all to give it a go, and pass the email onto all who may be interested ... http://www.100yearsofamplifiedmusic.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- A Century of Amplified Music -- a public science experiment on whether a lifetime of loud music exposure is linked to hearing loss http://www.100yearsofamplifiedmusic.org/ To round off a year of the Medical Research Council’s Centenary celebrations, researchers from MRC Institute of Hearing Research and the NIHR Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit are today launching a mass public experiment to see if listening to loud music over a lifetime is linked to hearing problems. Amplified music has been around for about as long as the Medical Research Council. There has been revolution after revolution in music amplification; we can now play music for hours at levels that could be potentially damaging. There’s always been the temptation to turn the music up loud. We want to find out if prolonged exposure to loud music really does cause hearing problems In the experiment, participants are asked to complete a short questionnaire about how much loud music listening they have done across their life (e.g. “How often would you say you went to gigs, concerts, and festivals?”). The questions cover gigs, clubs, and portable audio devices such as MP3/Walkmans, and are followed by a standard set of questions asking about their hearing. They are then asked to do a short listening experiment (a triple-digit speech in noise test), measuring their ability to identify words in a background of noise. Credits: The experiment was produced by hearing scientists at the MRC Institute of Hearing Research in Nottingham and Glasgow (Dr Michael Akeroyd, Dr Bill Whitmer, Professor David Moore) and the NIHR Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit (Robert Mackinnon and Dr Heather Fortnum). The experiment was funded by the Medical Research Foundation. Dr Michael A Akeroyd MRC/CSO Institute of Hearing Research - Scottish Section www.ihr.mrc.ac.uk maa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx |