Asymmetrical-hearing-loss listeners must physically reposition to exploit their better ear

Evidence

Listeners with asymmetrical hearing loss with normal hearing in one ear may also struggle to take advantage of their better ear and will strategically need to move their head or body so that their ear with better thresholds is also the ear with the better SNR. — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 1589

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The biomechanical head-orienting workaround for asymmetrical loss uses spatial positioning as an adaptive hearing aid — relevant to how perception is scaffolded by body movement.