Jacob Kirkegaard, sonic artist extraordinaire, hailed for his work inspired by natural phenomena and scientific explorations is making music out of the sounds your ears make. Originally trained at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany, the Denmark-born artist has numerous critically acclaimed exhibitions and permanent installations under his belt.
Circadian rhythms represent physical, mental, and behavioral changes that follow a roughly 24-hour cycle. The master clock that controls circadian rhythms is called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). The circadian rhythm is endogenous, but also adjusted or entrained by local environmental cues (called zeitgebers, German for “time giver”); which include light, temperature, and redox cycles.
So how does the central auditory nervous system react when the periphery stops working. The simplistic view of the distant past would suggest that the neural centers between the ears and the brain are nothing but way stations through which information is passed without much additional processing. Over the years we have learned that these way stations perform important steps of feature extraction, temporal coding, and integration of information between ears.
Screenings and the Increasing Prevalence of Hearing Loss
Prieve et al (2015) report their review of 18 studies (of 376 identified) published between December 2012 and April 2013. They report that “it is important to screen school-aged children for hearing loss because the estimated prevalence of hearing loss in school-aged children is at least double that in newborns….”
