New studies of the brain’s ability to decode words in loud situations
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Re: New studies of the brain’s ability to decode words in loud situations
#2I can't read this article without paying for a subscription.
Forgive my ignorance of procedure with something like this; should the title perhaps include an indication that the article is not free? I didn't see any guidelines concerning paid / subscription articles in the FAQ.
Re: New studies of the brain’s ability to decode words in loud situations
#3I can't read this article without paying for a subscription. Forgive my ignorance of procedure with something like this; should the title perhaps include an indication that the article is not free? I didn't see any guidelines concerning paid / subscription articles in the FAQ.
I'm not sure if it's documented, but for WSJ you can click the 'web' link, or do the equivalent of what the web link does.
Re: New studies of the brain’s ability to decode words in loud situations
#4I can't read this article without paying for a subscription. Forgive my ignorance of procedure with something like this; should the title perhaps include an indication that the article is not free? I didn't see any guidelines concerning paid / subscription articles in the FAQ.
Take a look at this extension if you wanna read WSJ: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/paywall-pass/
Re: New studies of the brain’s ability to decode words in loud situations
#5I actually got annoyed at my roommate last night because he was washing dishes while I was trying to watch a movie. The sound of running water totally messed up my ability to understand the movie (unless I turned up the volume quite a bit, and we have neighbors...), so I had to pause it until he was done.
I always thought it was just me - I'm not a native speaker - but it's interesting to know that it's an actual medical condition.
Re: New studies of the brain’s ability to decode words in loud situations
#6I can't read this article without paying for a subscription. Forgive my ignorance of procedure with something like this; should the title perhaps include an indication that the article is not free? I didn't see any guidelines concerning paid / subscription articles in the FAQ.
I'm not sure if it's documented, but for WSJ you can click the 'web' link, or do the equivalent of what the web link does.
This only works if the search term matches the title exactly. For instance, when the submission still had its original title (which matched the article's title), it worked. Then someone edited it and it now doesn't work. You have to open the article, select the title, right click > Search Google, then click the result from there.
Re: New studies of the brain’s ability to decode words in loud situations
#7If you would like to go on a Wikipedia journey on related topics, I recommend these two articles:
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%E2%80%93Kopetzky_syndrome
Re: New studies of the brain’s ability to decode words in loud situations
#8I can't read this article without paying for a subscription. Forgive my ignorance of procedure with something like this; should the title perhaps include an indication that the article is not free? I didn't see any guidelines concerning paid / subscription articles in the FAQ.
Click the "web" link.
Re: New studies of the brain’s ability to decode words in loud situations
#9I actually got annoyed at my roommate last night because he was washing dishes while I was trying to watch a movie. The sound of running water totally messed up my ability to understand the movie (unless I turned up the volume quite a bit, and we have neighbors...), so I had to pause it until he was done. I always thought it was just me - I'm not a native speaker - but it's interesting to know that it's an actual med…
I'm not convinced that I suffer from this but for years now I've enabled subtitles/captions in order to follow along. Helps with ambient noise, accents in the dialogue, otherwise inaudible dialogue, plus sometimes there's interesting ad-libs/changes from original script.
Might not help for a non-native English speaker unless the titles are in your language though, YMMV.
Re: New studies of the brain’s ability to decode words in loud situations
#10I can't read this article without paying for a subscription. Forgive my ignorance of procedure with something like this; should the title perhaps include an indication that the article is not free? I didn't see any guidelines concerning paid / subscription articles in the FAQ.
I'm not sure if it's documented, but for WSJ you can click the 'web' link, or do the equivalent of what the web link does.
What is the 'web' link?