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IF it is true that persons totally deaf in the range of normally audible sounds (30–16,000 c.p.s.) can perceive sound by bone-conduction in the range 16,000–100,000 c.p.s., this is a fact of great importance both for the theory of hearing and for the design and construction of hearing-aids, particularly if perception is associated with any useful degree of frequency discrimination above 16 kc./s.
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PUMPHREY, R. Upper Limit of Frequency for Human Hearing. Nature 167, 438–439 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167438d0
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