{"id":744390,"date":"2022-12-22T17:24:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T21:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=744390"},"modified":"2022-12-22T17:24:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T21:24:31","slug":"when-grandpa-cant-hear-words-at-a-noisy-holiday-gathering-too-many-brain-cells-may-be-firing-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=744390","title":{"rendered":"When grandpa can&#039;t hear words at a noisy holiday gathering, too many brain cells may be firing at once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for answers about how the brain works amid age-related hearing loss, researchers say they found that old mice were less capable than young mice of &#8216;turning off&#8217; certain actively firing brain cells in the midst of ambient noise. The result, they say, creates a &#8216;fuzzy&#8217; sound stage that makes it difficult for the brain to focus on one type of sound &#8212; such as spoken words &#8212; and filter out surrounding &#8216;noise.&#8217;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2022\/12\/221222162431.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">When grandpa can&#8217;t hear words at a noisy holiday gathering, too many brain cells may be firing at once<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for answers about how the brain works amid age-related hearing loss, researchers say they found that old mice were less capable than young mice of &#8216;turning off&#8217; certain actively&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}