In contrast to white noise, pink noise has more energy in the lower frequencies. Since pink noise has relatively more bass than white noise, it sounds more natural to the human ear—more like the roar of a waterfall than like the higher-pitched hissing sound of white noise. As a result, it is sometimes used to replace […]

(PIN-uh) The external or outer ear (auricle).

The subjective impression of frequency.

A “medicine” (sometimes called a “sugar pill”) that—unknown to the patient—has no active medicinal ingredients. It is used in drug studies to compare the efficacy of a new drug to no treatment at all without the patient being aware of which “treatment” they are receiving.

The body worn sound processor portion of a cochlear implant made by Advanced Bionics. It is basically equivalent to the Harmony BTE cochlear implant sound processor.

See Conditioned Audiometry.