Timeline for Diplacusis - possible to tell which ear is normal?
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| Dec 1, 2015 at 22:03 | comment | added | Daniel Griscom | I doubt people are born with diplacusis; otherwise their brains would never train to hear pitches differently in each ear. Wikipedia supports this, although not explicitly. | |
| Dec 1, 2015 at 21:02 | comment | added | TTT | @DanielGriscom, that assumes that the person had perfect pitch before getting diplacusis, otherwise they would never have been able to learn which ear was correct to begin with. | |
| Dec 1, 2015 at 20:49 | comment | added | Daniel Griscom | @CarlWitthoft Nope. Someone with real absolute pitch (not me) can listen to a note and tell you whether it's an A or an A flat. If they play an A, and hear A in the right ear and A flat in the left, then they'll know the left ear is hearing wrong. | |
| Dec 1, 2015 at 18:13 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | I think you're making a big leap about perfect pitch and how the brain processes it. You're implying that somehow the brain "knows" that the bad ear is "reporting" a different value than the good ear. It would be interesting to track down someone who's got both perfect pitch and diplacusis to see what happens, but my bet is they'll recognize pitches just fine with either ear. | |
| Dec 1, 2015 at 17:34 | comment | added | TTT | Interesting point about playing the tones simultaneously and having beating. | |
| Nov 30, 2015 at 22:01 | history | answered | Daniel Griscom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |