Re: What do we hear in High frequency hearing

["Didier A. Depireux" <didier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Brian Gygi wrote:

> Although it's certainly possible that some information from > 20 kHz is
> audible through bone conduction or standing waves or just healthy cochlea,
> what is it exactly that people are hearing in that range?

I don't understand the 'paradox' here. You can hear the difference between
an impulsive sound low-passed below 20 kHz and low-passed below 26 kHz. That
does not mean that you should be able to hear a pure tone, ramped up slowly,
at +/-24 kHz. It would be the case only if the cochlea performed an exact
Fourier tranform...

                                                Didier

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