![]() The first one is the environmental setting of the person. There are many factors that influence whether a human actually listens to a sound. Listening is active and involves hearing, paying attention, and understanding. Beyond the multiple stages of hearing we only listen to the sounds we want to. Animals hear more sounds than humans especially the dolphin, which is able to hear 14 times better than humans (Think Quest). Along with children having a better sense of hearing are also animals. Children have more sensitive ears than adults do, allowing them to recognize a wider variety of sounds. The sense of hearing is not the same throughout our whole life. It is the opposite when the level of loudness is higher and the ability to perceive pitch is more affective. Durations longer than 200ms do not affect loudness judgment, beyond the fact that we tend to stop paying attention to long unchanging tones.” (Elsea) When the level of loudness is lower, the ability to recognize the pitch becomes more difficult. Below that limit, the loudness is affected by the length of the sound shorter is softer. “The ability to make loudness judgments is compromised for sounds of less than 200ms duration. The first main interpretation of sound is loudness which is affected by the frequency of the sound. Just as our ability to remember a certain face, if a pattern is repeated enough we will learn to recognize this pattern belonging to a specific sound. The process of hearing is much more difficult than just our ears picking up all the sounds. The last step is when our brain translates these messages and allows us to hear. The movement of the cilia causes these messages to be sent through the auditory nerve to your brain. As the vibrations are occurring through the cochlea, the cilia are now moving, which are the thousands of little hairs inside your ear. The stirrup then passes the vibrations along a coiled tube in the inner ear called the cochlea. The eardrum sends the vibrations to the three smallest bones in our body: the hammer, anvil, and then the stirrup. After the vibrations hit our eardrums the reaction that occurs is what allows us to hear sounds. Hearing is performed primarily by the auditory system vibrations are detected by the ear and formatted into nerve impulses that are perceived by the brain (Wikipedia). Hearing is the interpretation and ability to perceive sounds. ![]() The only noticeable similarity between the sense of hearing and listening is that the ears are used for both. Hearing is passive and occurs even while we sleep, while listening is active and involves hearing, paying attention, and understanding (NYC 1). There is a huge difference between the act of listening and the act of hearing. ![]() Every day we hear many different sounds but we do not listen to all of them. I think hearing is often taken for granted. I have found deafness to be a much greater handicap than blindness. ![]() If I could live again I should do much more than I have for the deaf. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus-the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir and keeps us in the intellectual company of man. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important, than those of blindness. Most people, given a choice, would rather lose their hearing than their sight (Ackerman 191). I cannot imagine what it would be like to live everyday without the experience of hearing and listening to these sounds. It may be the loud buzzing noise of the alarm clock that wakes us up at 7 am, or the sound of the microwave when it’s done cooking our food, but each one of these sounds have an impact on our life. Sometimes we hallucinate sounds more often than sights by listening to the ‘little voice’ inside us which may stop us or make us do certain things. Whether or not one is listening to the sounds, we still hear them. Almost everything on the earth has their own unique sound, and we are surrounded by these sounds every day of our lives. Sounds thicken the sensory stew of our lives, and we depend on them to help us interpret, communicate with, and express the world around us (Ackerman 175).
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