Even if the hearing loss is located in the cochlea and the higher levels of the auditory system function well, the impaired ear may not be able to pass on the multitude of cues otherwise available in the incoming sound.
For example, a female pigeon might attend to colour cues if the males she sees is a large mature male that she finds attractive, whereas she might not attend to those cues otherwise.
And while it does have a Hyundai badge at the rear, every other design cue speaks otherwise.
Create a physical cue, not otherwise used, as the relaxation response trigger.
The crying-wolf phenomenon tends to insulate us from cues that otherwise would elicit a response.
Thus, for any plastic trait our analysis predicts that at some point in its ontogeny, development will become canalized and cease to respond to environmental cues that otherwise induce its acceleration.
Music may also mimic prosodic cues that otherwise communicate emotion vocally or through ambient environmental sounds.
Otherwise, cue sunrise at 6am, when you're probably still partying on the beach, the tent turns into a hothouse and you've missed your chance to get some sleep.
Even when the cue categories are otherwise roughly equated on perceptual features (brightness, hue, complexity) or normed on a reference population[19], the "fit" with prior conditioning history is expected to be a strong determinant of the brain response.
Furthermore, when trained to detect inharmonicity, zebra finches outperform humans, which led to speculations that zebra finches might either use non-spectral cues or possess an enhanced ability to discriminate the same cues, which are otherwise also used by humans (Lohr and Dooling 1998).
