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Their breath on your skin helps you hear

By Aria Pearson

25 November 2009

DEPENDING on whose it is, breath on your neck may or may not feel good. Either way, now it seems that it can help you understand what someone is saying. The discovery could lead to hearing aids that emit puffs of air.

We know that . For example, if we hear “ba” while watching a person saying “ga” we think we’ve heard “da”. and colleagues at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, wondered whether tactile sensations affect hearing too.

In speech, the “aspirated” syllables “pa” and “ta” are accompanied…

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