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High-volume portable music players may impair ability to clearly discriminate sounds

March 9, 2011 by

Listening to loud music through earphones for extended periods in noisy surroundings can cause neurophysiological changes related to clear discrimination of sounds, even if the hearing threshold is normal, new research shows.

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