THE IMPACT OF HEARING LOSS AND HEARING AID USAGE ON THE VISUOSPATIAL ABILITIES OF OLDER ADULTS IN A COHORT OF COMBINED HEARING AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT

The Impact of Hearing Loss and Hearing Aid Usage on the Visuospatial Abilities of Older Adults in a Cohort of Combined Hearing and Cognitive Impairment

IntroductionIt has been proposed that hearing loss may result in improved visuospatial abilities.The evidence for this assertion is inconsistent, and limited to studies in congenitally deaf children, despite older adults with age-related transpharm online shopping hearing loss constituting the vast majority of the hearing impaired population.We ass

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Artifacts and fields of action

The aim of this paper is to defend a theory of artifacts based on the concept of field of action, as an alternative to here functional, intentional and double-nature theories.The proposed theory is realistic about the existence of entities that are artifacts, and praxiological about the nature of such entities.The basis of the theory is the concept

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