RESEARCH IN AUDITION: THE NEXT STEPS: EXPERIMENTAL FINDINGS AND THEIR CLINICAL ASPECTS

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Every physiologic investigative program must be outlined with some thought of its eventual practical application. Certainly this is true in any of the sciences allied to the field of medicine or at least to the advancement of physical well-being. For eight years a group of specially equipped investigators and many others have concerned themselves, however productively, with an intensive series of researches designed to clarify the problem of human audition. It is true that the experimental medium may have been far removed from man in its phylogenetic status, but the end organs in each experimental animal served to bring the subject in touch with the world of sound. Analysis and interpretation were not the primary concern. No matter what may have been the standard of measurement—cochlear potentials, action currents, conditioned responses or muscular reflexes—frequency and intensity have been and still are the stimuli from the combination of which response is

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