Perhaps it's failing cortex, but I prefer my own explanation that I'm simply not interested in what most people are trying to tell me :)
Effects of aging on cortical representations of continuous speech
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37096924/
via @jzsimon
@jzsimon What I could use would be a blog post on this paper from a neuroscience communicator. But then we'd probably get headlines like "Can science help your hearing as you're getting old?" and @ianbetteridge would have to say what he usually says in such circumstances.