MATHEUS ANTUNES

Continuing on the theme of the human ear I will write about the study that led to our understanding of that subjectivity I have been talking about in other posts The science of volume and the Fletcher Munson curves You must have noticed that music seems to lose its weight when we turn down the volume of the radio or sound system significantly. The bass disappears and the brightness of higher pitched instruments fades away leaving only the voice and mid range sounds in the spo

In the previous post, I talked about the Decibel and how the mathematical relationship between two quantities is simplified by the scale. I often used the term "perception" to refer to how the human ear effectively hears different intensities or frequencies. Now, let's dissect exactly what that 'perception' means by exploring the biology behind how we hear. Before anything else, it's worth noting that I am by no means an expert in audiology. The knowledge about the human ear'