pinnae research study

[Jason Patton <jason.patton@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

This is a bit of a crapshoot. I'm trying to track down a reference for my 
Masters thesis. I read *somewhere*, in maybe 1997/1998, about a study in 
which subjects undertook adaptive auditory 'training', wearing 
differently-shaped pinna molds for a couple of weeks at a time. Different 
molds would give them sensitivity in different frequency bands and, if I 
remember rightly, this persisted beyond the time when the particular mold 
was removed (ie. the new sensitivity had been in some sense 'encoded' on 
the ear/auditory nerve).

The study recalled a similar experiment in which subjects wore up-down 
inverting glasses for a period of a few weeks. In that study, the vision 
system performed an adaptive correction quite quickly, which reverted 
equally quickly after removing the glasses.

Does anybody know what I'm talking about here? Any Bregman/Handel/ASA heads 
out there got a reference for me?

Yours on a limb...

Jason


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Jason Patton
MPhil(NewMediaArts) candidate
Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology
Australian National University
Canberra 0200
Australia