Subject: Re: cut-off frequency of mammals and non-mammals' hearing From: Martin Braun <nombraun(at)TELIA.COM> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:39:35 +0100If you are interested in the data of mammals AND non-mammals, the best source is: DB Webster, RR Fay, AN Popper (1992) The Evolutionary Biology of Hearing, Springer-Verlag, New York, 910 pages. Martin ------------------------------------------- Martin Braun Neuroscience of Music S-671 95 Klassbol Sweden e-mail: nombraun(at)telia.com web site: http://w1.570.telia.com/~u57011259/index.htm > You may also find > > Fay, RR. Hearing in Vertebrates: A Psychophysics Databook. Hill-Fay > Associates, Winnetka, IL, 1988 > > helpful. > > Suresh. > > At 03:01 PM 3/20/2003 -0500, David Mountain wrote: > >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. > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >David C. Mountain, Ph.D. > >Professor of Biomedical Engineering > >Boston University > >44 Cummington St. > >Boston, MA 02215 > > > >Email: dcm(at)bu.edu > >Website: http://earlab.bu.edu/dcm/ > >Phone: (617) 353-4343 > >FAX: (617) 353-6766 > >Office: ERB 413 > > > >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