Neural Pathways for Hearing Bass?

[pozz]

That reminds me of a test rig originally used for response to pressure variations expected to be experienced with high speed trains when passing, entering tunnels etc. where the top of the chamber was a bellows driven by a servohydraulics.

Almost all of the early infrasound tests in the first half of the 1900s used pistonphones instead of speaker drivers (one tested used huge tuning forks with weights, and von Bekesy used a thermophone). When speaker drivers became reliable enough experimenters switched to those.

 

[SADongre]

To be clear, sensation at very low frequencies is not auditory at all, it is touch sensation and prioperception.

Vestibular also...

 

[pozz]

@j_j @SADongre If you guys have the time or inclinination, some studies or books that look at auditory/non-auditory responses at low frequencies would be useful. Particularly if they get into the neural pathway and the areas of the brain responsible.

 

[SADongre]

pozz, I'm not going to pretend I'm at the cutting edge of the auditory neuro field, my field is more visual, however here's a couple of recent papers that seem on point (perhaps someone with more relevant experience can comment specifically). They deal with the association of auditory and tactile stimuli, which can be seen to elicit concomitant field responses in relevant, associated brain regions:

https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/28/11/3908/4508774

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811920303244

The following isn't a data paper, but is a fun read with an interesting perspective:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00444/full

Let me know if you need the pdf's, I can probably help with that...

 

[pozz]

pozz, I'm not going to pretend I'm at the cutting edge of the auditory neuro field, my field is more visual, however here's a couple of recent papers that seem on point (perhaps someone with more relevant experience can comment specifically). They deal with the association of auditory and tactile stimuli, which can be seen to elicit concomitant field responses in relevant, associated brain regions:

https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/28/11/3908/4508774

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811920303244

The following isn't a data paper, but is a fun read with an interesting perspective:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00444/full

Let me know if you need the pdf's, I can probably help with that...

They seem to be open access. Thank you

 

[Kal Rubinson]

A recent Stereophile mentioned a deaf person that listens to music by holding a balloon between his palms.

No comment.

 

[azzy_mazzy]

To be clear, sensation at very low frequencies is not auditory at all, it is touch sensation and prioperception.

if its not auditory can deaf people detect/sense those low frequencies at the same dB level?

 

[Katji]

They might [probably/often] be more sensitive to it, more aware of it.

 

[j_j]

if its not auditory can deaf people detect/sense those low frequencies at the same dB level?

In general yes, but "deaf" means many things, not just "profoundly deaf".