Re: children's hearing curve? (Hiroko Terasawa )

Subject: Re: children's hearing curve?
From:    Hiroko Terasawa  <shiraiwa@xxxxxxxx>
Date:    Mon, 2 Oct 2006 00:46:59 -0700

It is quite illuminating for me, because I didn't think about the  
hearing curve in terms of OAE by far - it is not a direct measurement  
of the hearing response but surely an evidence for the changing  
resonance over ages. Thanks a lot!
  - hiroko


On Oct 1, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Martin Braun wrote:

> 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=icon 
> abstr&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum
>
> Martin
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hiroko Terasawa"  
> <shiraiwa@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx>
> 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/
>

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Hiroko Terasawa
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~hiroko/