In Reply to: Kal, is this correct? posted by Jim Austin on August 5, 2014 at 04:52:58:
All perceptions are subjective to some degree. Limiting the latency between stimulus and response serves to limit how much.
Of course, one could record from auditory afferent fibers or the auditory nuclei and, to a great degree, eliminate the subjectivity but that raises another issue: We need that to hear but we don't really "listen" with those. Cortical recordings might represent an objective measurement but it would be of subjectively-processed information.
So, it is a matter of refining the question before determining how we might answer it. If you want to find out what our auditory resolution (in any dimension) is, you want to eliminate subjectivity as much as possible. If you want to find out what we are hearing or how we are assessing what we hear, that subjectivity is an essential part and, perhaps, the major player.
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- Yes but all of this is relative. - Kal Rubinson 06:49:32 08/05/14 (0)