In those animals with auditory structures, hearing serves purposes of great biological value: in its more primitive forms, it is used to sense danger and enemies, to detect prey, and to identify prospective mates; at a more complex level, hearing is involved in communication within social groups and in emotional expressions of various kinds.
The more we know about the auditory hallucinations of schizophrenia, the more complex voice-hearing seems and the more heterogeneous the voice-hearing population becomes.
For a while, Benson imbibed the philosophy of a gaudier and more complex sphere, heard the tinny music of their radios and stared into the dazzle of the day.
But as the organisation became more complex, voices were heard questioning the use of the term team for this increasingly diverse collection of professionals [ 24] and the wisdom of introducing what Hunter called 'managerialism' into this unstructured context [ 25].
This patient also demonstrates mildly prominent vestibular aqueducts bilaterally, a finding not consistent with a GJB2-based etiology and suggestive of a more complex etiology for the hearing loss.
You might not agree with them, but to understand their in-your-face stridency as anything more complex than arrogance, you have hear the depth of their urgency.
More complex attention kicks in when you hear your name called from across a room or hear an unexpected birdcall from inside a subway station.
Steve Reich's was devoted to both The Rite of Spring and the cymbal beat of Kenny Clarke, Terry Riley had plenty of jazz-piano skills and La Monte Young bebop-sax ones – and Ross noted Reich's amazement at hearing John Coltrane improvise more complex structures with his quartet in a nightclub than the embryonic minimalist had been discussing all day in an earnest Juilliard composition class.
As the implanted child grows up, managing in the world of hearing people may become more complex.
PCs might be more complex in their interpretation in respect to hearing, but they enable representation of both overall threshold shift and slope of the audiogram.
