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Doctor of audiology here. I think you are mistaken. The acoustic reflex cannot be triggered in this way. The reflex is triggered only after being exposed to a v
by funkdified 10y ago
Doctor of audiology here. I think you are mistaken. The acoustic reflex cannot be triggered in this way. The reflex is triggered only after being exposed to a very loud sound.
- dTal 10y agoHow do you know?
- BWStearns 10y ago"Doctor of audiology"?
- cshimmin 10y agoI am loling, but I think perhaps parent meant to ask "how is it known [... to doctors of audiology]". I.e. how did people determine thay fact. Or maybe he was just being a smartass.
- dTal 10y agoOn being a smartass - did you just assume my gender? </straightface>
- dTal 10y agoIs precisely the person I would hope can explain. Especially given the confidence placed into the negative assertion.
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- joeyo 10y agoI could imagine a visual form of it being a conditioned reflex. The stapedius reflex is also triggered by vocalization, so clearly some level of top-down modulation is possible.
- closure 10y agoI too can make a rumbling sound at will since I was a child. What is responsible for this? I don't know how I discovered how to do this but it always seemed natural.
- maaaats 10y agoSounds like voluntary opening of the eustachian tubes, also called BTV in freediving. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_clearing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_clearing
- szemet 10y agoOh, Thanks. When I was a child I asked all the adults around about this, but they looked at me like I were a lunatic, so eventually I just stopped talking about it.... :) Glad to have an answer now.
- LordKano 10y agoI learned to do this as a child because I always had issues with feelings of pressure in my ears. I was so sensitive that riding up or down a hill that was big enough would cause discomfort.