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No experiment has hitherto been recorded which is decisive for or against the resonance hypothesis. The properties of the ear are such that it is difficult to construct an experiment of which the result is neither obscured by an unavoidable margin of error nor capable of alternative interpretations. We believe that the following experiment is unobjectionable on either of these grounds and constitutes a valid proof that the resonance hypothesis is true, and that the resonators of the ear (at all but the lowest audible frequencies) are only lightly damped.
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Pumphrey and Gold, Nature, 160, 124 (1947).
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PUMPHREY, R., GOLD, T. Phase Memory of the Ear : a Proof of the Resonance Hypothesis. Nature 161, 640 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161640a0
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