Sumner Christian J, Bergevin Christopher, Oxenham Andrew J, Shera Christopher A
NTU Psychology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Department of Physics and Astronomy and Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Front Young Minds. 2022;10. doi: 10.3389/frym.2022.708921. Epub 2022 May 31.
Humans and many other animals can hear a wide range of sounds. We can hear low and high notes and both quiet and loud sounds. We are also very good at telling the difference between sounds that are similar, like the speech sounds "argh" and "ah," and picking apart sounds that are mixed together, like when an orchestra is playing. But how do human hearing abilities compare to those of other animals? In this article, we discover how the inner ear determines hearing abilities. Many other mammals can hear very high notes that we cannot, and some can hear quiet sounds that we cannot. However, humans may be better than any other species at distinguishing similar sounds. We know this because, milliseconds after the sounds around us go into our ears, other sounds come : sounds that are actually produced by those same ears!
人类和许多其他动物能听到各种各样的声音。我们能听到低音和高音，也能听到安静和响亮的声音。我们还非常擅长区分相似的声音，比如语音“argh”和“ah”，并且能分辨混合在一起的声音，就像管弦乐队演奏时那样。但是人类的听力与其他动物相比如何呢？在本文中，我们将探索内耳是如何决定听力的。许多其他哺乳动物能听到我们听不到的高音，有些还能听到我们听不到的安静声音。然而，在区分相似声音方面，人类可能比其他任何物种都更出色。我们之所以知道这一点，是因为在我们周围的声音传入耳朵后的几毫秒内，其他声音就来了：这些声音实际上是由同一耳朵产生的！
