Pitch perception differs across listeners despite normal hearing thresholds

Evidence

To avoid the use of pitches which may not be clearly audible to everyone despite reporting normal hearing, all pitches were restricted to lie between 100 and 3200 Hz. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5296

Categorization

  • QUESTION: Where do individual differences in pitch audibility come from, and why do they survive ‘normal hearing’ screening? Worth chasing into cochlear dead-region literature.