Dr. Jennifer Groh

Interesting.

I don't know of any studies, but I think we can predict from first principles that they would have an initial deficit and that very likely they would learn to adapt and they would kind of learn their new set of ears and what particular frequency pattern to expect from that.

Yeah.

Do you like listening to this podcast?

But it's an awkward feeling, isn't it?

To listen to yourself is very awkward.

Before I answer that question, which is a really interesting question, I want to loop back to the, do we have to learn this?

The other thing to say about learning, learning how to interpret these, the timing difference cues and the level difference cues is,

is that a baby's head is about half the width of an adult's head.

So that means that that half millisecond for me is a quarter of a millisecond for a baby, and it's going to change as they grow.

So that's why you have to do all this learning.

With respect to the question you just asked about like why our voices sound weird, I can say more about why they sound weird and less about why we experience it as kind of unpleasant.

Maybe that the weird and unpleasant connection is because we're just so used to the way it actually – the way we experience it that to hear it recorded is going to be –

unfamiliar and strange.

I think there's going to be three things.

Number one, the recording is not going to capture the full spectrum of frequency content of your voice.

Number two, your brain has an active mechanism for manipulating the transduction of sound in your ears.

That is to say the conversion of sound into a neural signal that's going to go into the brain.

So your brain actually controls that process.

And there's some thinking that it's...