Wider auditory filters and steeper cochlear compression reduce noise-induced hearing loss.

Evidence

The amount with which AM detection thresholds worsened for the NH listeners was significantly correlated to the DPOAE threshold indicating that those listeners with the widest auditory filters and steepest compression slopes were less impacted by the addition of the noise. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5902

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why would wider filters confer noise robustness? Common assumption is narrow filters aid signal extraction — this seems to reverse that for noise degradation.
• XREF: connects to: Hearing-specialist fish evolved in quiet waters and suffer heavy masking in noisy ones — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 1347; Hearing damage widens acoustic filter bandwidth, impairing speech separation and sensitivity — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 674