Listeners re-adapt to modified pinna cues within about six weeks

Evidence

Results show that while localisation performance was disrupted immediately after mould insertion, subjects regained their localisation ability over the course of weeks. Typically after 6 weeks of learning they had reached an asymptote close to their previous performance. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 3053

Categorization

• XREF: Adult neural plasticity window for re-learning spectral-spatial mapping, paralleling similar recalibration found in visual prism-adaptation studies. — connects to: The auditory system continually relearns to decode pinna-imposed spectral cues. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1453
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 3053