Why We Can Have Conversations In A Noisy Bar

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Why We Can Have Conversations In A Noisy Bar

Post by MikeQuell » July 12th, 2015, 11:05 pm

Source: http://www.wired.com/2014/03/ear-nanopores-hearing/
It’s the balance between fine frequency discrimination and overall sound sensitivity that lets humans listen to things like conversations in restaurants. Push too hard on one side of the scale, and we lose that ability.

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