Detection is prerequisite to but insufficient for sound discrimination

Evidence

The results from speech audiometry indicate something about the ability to discriminate between sounds, whereas pure-tone audiometry indicates ability to detect the presence of particular frequency components. Clearly detection ability is basic to being able to make use of frequency components in a particular sound, but how a listener might make use of those components depends on their discrimination ability. — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 2372

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 2372