Re: cut-off frequency of mammals and non-mammals' hearing (David Mountain )

Subject: Re: cut-off frequency of mammals and non-mammals' hearing
From:    David Mountain  <dcm(at)BU.EDU>
Date:    Thu, 20 Mar 2003 15:01:43 -0500

For high-frequency cutofs in mammals, take a look at:

Heffner RS, Koay G, Heffner HE.
Audiograms of five species of rodents: implications for the evolution of
hearing and the perception of pitch. Hear Res 2001 Jul;157(1-2):138-52

You can find quite a bit of bird audiogram data in:

Dooling, RJ Hearing in Birds in The Evolutionary Biology of Hearing, DB
Webster, RR Fay and AN Popper eds. 1992 Springer-Verlag, New York pp
545-559.

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On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Chen-gia TSAI wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> Masterton et al. (1968) pointed out that high-frequency hearing is a characteristic unique to mammals.
> I wonder if I can find updated data about the cut-off frequency of mammals and non-mammals' hearing.
>
> Masterton B, Heffner H, and Ravizza R (1969). The evolution of high-frequency hearing, JASA 45: 966-985.
>
> Chen-Gia Tsai
>