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For questions regarding the sensation (transduction) and perception of sound information by the brain in humans and animals

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Why do psychologists tend to associate guilt with auditory admonition?

Can you please expound the sentence that I marked with red lines? The green underlie refers to Wolfram Eberhard's 1967 book Guilt and Sin in Traditional China, page 12. But my library is closed because of COVID. Axel Schuessler, ABC Etymological…
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Why do you hear music inside your head when wearing headphones, even when you hold the phones some distance from your head?

When you wear headphones for listening to music you hear the music inside your head. Even when you hold the two speakers at the same distance from your ears the music is still heard inside your head. If you hold one speaker further or lower from…
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Interclick interval resolution of the ear

Let's say I have an almost perfect metronome which ticks at 60 beats per minute, except for one beat that is slightly off from time to time. What's the maximum error this metronome can have without a human being able to notice the rhythmic…
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Blocking out unwanted sound sources

Suppose you are in a room with two other persons, both of them talking. If you want to hear one of them, you are able to block out the other even though he is talking (although not very loud). How our brain does this as if the other person is not…
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Does "hearing" give off an electronic signal?

I'm thinking in terms of the middle ear and the very intricate and tiny bones that process a "sound wave" into "what we hear." Is there an output to the middle ear ossicle chain bones such that a signal is being sent from the ears to outside of our…
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