Hearing loss acts like a filter attenuating specific frequencies

Evidence

Filters have an important role to play in both acoustics and perception, and they are used to modify sound. In many cases, models of auditory perception are based on the concept of filters. For example, hearing loss can be considered to be like a filter as some frequencies are attenuated by that hearing loss. Filters modify sound by attenuating certain frequency components of a stimulus. — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 419

Categorization

• XREF: The filter-bank framing of auditory perception connects to auditory filter models of masking and to cochlear mechanical tuning studied in cochlea chapters.
• DEFINE: Introduces filters as the core building block of auditory perception models, linking physics to hearing impairment.