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Development of Auditory Coding as Reflected in Psychophysical Performance

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Human Auditory Development

Part of the book series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research ((SHAR,volume 42))

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Behavioral response to sound can be consistently elicited by 28 weeks of gestational age (Birnholz and Benacerraf 1983), and yet performance on some auditory tasks continues to mature into early adolescence even for relatively simple stimuli (Fior 1972; Maxon and Hochberg 1982; Fischer and Hartnegg 2004). This protracted auditory development could be affected by a number of factors, including anatomical, neural, and cognitive maturation.

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Buss, E., Hall, J.W., Grose, J.H. (2012). Development of Auditory Coding as Reflected in Psychophysical Performance. In: Werner, L., Fay, R., Popper, A. (eds) Human Auditory Development. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, vol 42. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1421-6_4

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