auditory threshold
Softest detectable sound
The auditory threshold is the minimum sound intensity a person can detect—the quietest sound the ear can hear.
Audiologists measure it to assess hearing ability and diagnose hearing loss.
The threshold varies by frequency; human ears are most sensitive to sounds in the speech range.
Her auditory threshold had shifted after years of working around loud machinery.
- cochleaSpiral hearing organ
- inner earBalance and hearing center
- sound frequencyOscillation rate of audio waves
- audiometryEvaluation of hearing ability
- faintestLeast distinct or perceptible
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- hearingear, cochlea, hearing loss, deaf, hearing test
- limits of hearingfrequency range, hearing range, pitch range, volume limits, hearing loss
- Psychoacousticsloudness, masking, timbre, binaural beats, cocktail party effect
- Psychophysicsforced choice, subliminal, liminal
- hearing testshearing test, hearing tests, audiometry, audiogram, hearing screening
- sensory thresholdslimen, subliminal