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THE results of some measurements of the threshold of hearing for a pure tone and for a band of noise may be of general interest as they have a bearing on the resonance theory of hearing. (The connexion between such measurements and the resonance theory of hearing was pointed out by D. Boston at a meeting of the Physical Society of London in 1953.)
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WENTWORTH-JESSOP, J., VIGOUREUX, P. Comparison of Threshold of Hearing for Bands of Noise and for Pure Tones. Nature 179, 374–375 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/179374b0
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