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What is the biological limit on hearing resolution?
I sometimes wonder how many different individual musical scales could be perceived by human ears. I define a musical scale as a collection of notes that relate to some fundamental frequency by ...
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Does the human ear adapt to noise levels?
I have noticed lately that if I go to sleep, when I have my radio running, it is on lowest volume, I still consider it kind of loud.
In the morning, when being on the edge of waking up, I hear the ...
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What determines the perceived pitch (frequency) of tinnitus?
I noticed that every time I suffer temporary tinnitus after going to a very loud concert, the frequency I perceive is identical. I'd put it somewhere around 17 kHz, but it's difficult to pin down with ...
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