Psychology says watching everything with subtitles on isn't about your hearing, it's about lowering the effort of processing speech so the brain has more left over for actually following the story

Psychology says watching everything with subtitles on isn't about your hearing, it's about lowering the effort of processing speech so the brain has more left over for actually following the story

Psychology says watching everything with subtitles on isn’t about your hearing; it’s about lowering the effort of processing speech so the brain has more left over for following the story I can’t hear without the subtitles is something my partner and I say to each other almost every time we sit down to watch something without closed captioning. We laugh about it. We wonder if we’re getting older, if our attention spans have shortened, if the spe…