From: "Ryk E Spoor" Subject: Re: What is the resolution of human hearing? Date: 18 Jul 91 19:29:36 GMT Organization: University of Pittsburgh In article <1991Jul18.184025.9933@milton.u.washington.edu> dnettles@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David E Nettles) writes: >What is the resolution of human hearing? >For vision I think it is 24 frames/sec. What is it for sound? >[MODERATOR'S NOTE: I think that the human ear is sensitive to frequencies >from about 60 Hz to 17KHz; the phone tops out at around 8 KHz. The first Roughly correct on the frequencies, I believe. However, I think what David was asking was what the interval discrimination of the human ear is (i.e., how close together sounds can be in time and still be heard as separate). I will check on this, but I believe it is on the close order of 100 milliseconds. Sea Wasp