Not only can the human ear detect sounds, it can also generate them. If the ear hears the two upper tones of a major triad, it produces the fundamental of the chord which can then be measured. This ...

If you have ever had a hearing test, you’ll already know something about audiometry. Audiometry is simply a way of testing how well you can hear. Audiometry tests are noninvasive, and they can tell ...

This presents difficulties, as the patient might respond to the accidental stimulation of the non-test ear, resulting in the stored threshold being better than it would be if the signal came from its ...

In this section, a number of acoustic and psychoacoustic principles are applied to the clinical measurement of hearing ability. Hearing ability is described in Chapter 2 and summarized in Figure 2.10 ...