How does the Tomatis Effect improve listening?
The pedagogical or therapeutic tool of the Tomatis Method is called the Electronic Ear. The Electronic Ear is a system which takes advantage of and reactivates the strategies involved in perceptive organization and in the management of one’s sound environment which the brain is normally able to use when listening is undisturbed. Listening will be disturbed when there is a dysfunction of the two muscles located in the middle ear whose role is to enable the precise and harmonious integration of acoustic information into the inner ear, and from there to the brain. When the brain is disturbed, it will put in place a system of protection, triggering mechanisms which inhibit listening. Thus, the role of the Electronic Ear is precisely to restore these two auditory muscles to their full working ability so as to remove these mechanisms of inhibition and reactivate a full listening potential. The Tomatis Effect completes the process. The new Solisten is the portable and educational application
