Pitches outside a core audible range can be inaudible even in self-reported normal hearing
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…, 5298
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- QUESTION: Which pitch ranges are reliably audible to all people with normal hearing, and how does this interact with age-related high-frequency hearing loss?
Related
- Pitch perception differs across listeners despite normal hearing thresholds (similarity 0.91)
- Tone sequences restricted to 100-3200 Hz avoid inaudible pitches in normal hearers (similarity 0.86)
- Test pitches were limited to 100-3200 Hz for audibility (similarity 0.83)
- The audiogram does not predict pitch perception deficits in hearing loss (similarity 0.82)
- Hearing sensitivity within clinically normal range still declines measurably with age (similarity 0.81)
- Only about 1,400 discriminable pitches exist across the entire audible range (similarity 0.80)
- Pitch perception experiments restrict stimuli to a clearly audible frequency range. (similarity 0.80)
- Tinnitus pitch spans the entire region of hearing loss, not a single frequency (similarity 0.80)
- Listeners with hearing loss form a heterogeneous perceptual group, not a single category (similarity 0.80)
- Hearing loss disrupts pitch perception through multiple independent coding failures (similarity 0.80)
- Human pitch sense spans 0 to roughly 5000 Hz, distinct from partial perception (similarity 0.80)
- Musical pitch perception spans roughly 30 Hz to 4 kHz. (similarity 0.80)
- Hearing-impaired listeners usually hear the correct pitch but with more variability (similarity 0.79)
- Sloping or rising hearing loss can create contradictory pitch codes across frequency regions (similarity 0.79)
- The pitch deviation study drew 54 mostly student participants (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- The audiogram does not predict pitch perception deficits in hearing loss
#corroborates(0.80) — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 1330 - Sloping or rising hearing loss can create contradictory pitch codes across frequency regions
#complicates(0.75) — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 1337