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Humans can do way better than that, somewhere in the 20 microsecond range. See for example Mills (1958). https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=114016961362
by phreeza 5y ago
Humans can do way better than that, somewhere in the 20 microsecond range. See for example Mills (1958). https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=1140169613625988666&hl=de&as_sdt=0,5#d=gs_qabs&u=%23p%3DOhbfAzmy0g8J https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=11401696136259886...
Edit: in fact, humans are among the best animals at all at this task, I think it is not really clear why. They are on par with highly specialist auditory hunters like barn owls. May be that humans can use their higher cognitive faculties to somehow get better at the task than the average animal but it's not clear to me how that would happen.
- andi999 5y agoSince humans rely on groups and communication it is probably to hear/locate who in a group is talking.
- chiefalchemist 5y agoI would imagine this might not be an ear mechanics issue, but a brain processing issue. Some animals have dedicated "processor" and other do not. While in the larger more agile human brain it's simply one of many features. Maybe?