Re: children's hearing curve?

[Martin Braun <nombraun@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Hiroko and list,

there are plenty of data on ear canal resonance in neonates, infants, 
children of various ages, and adults. Not long ago I reviewed some of this 
material:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16644155&itool=iconabstr&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum

Martin

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hiroko Terasawa" <shiraiwa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 10:33 AM
Subject: children's hearing curve?


> Dear List,
>
> I'm asking this question out of curiosity - according to Fletcher- Munson 
> curve, human hearing is most sensitive around 3khz, which, as  I know of, 
> is delivered by the length of ear canal. I guess that  infants have 
> shorter ear canals, then possibly they have different  peak frequency of 
> sensitivity... maybe the peak frequency changes  while growing up... Have 
> you seen such measurements? I'd love to see  the curve.
>
>  - hiroko
>
> --
>
> Hiroko Terasawa
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~hiroko/