This special issue explores an ecological perspective to hearing in human and non-human animals. The goal is to understand the relationship between the auditory system and the natural sounds of real-world environments, including animal vocalizations such as birdsongs or insect stridulations and geophysical sounds such as stream, wind, or rainfall sounds....
✦ The floor
Discussion
Signed responses from readers of the wire.
✦ Clinical Takeaway ✦
No actionable change for clinical practice; this is an introductory editorial to a special journal issue and contains no primary findings.
✦ Why It Matters ✦
An ecological approach to hearing science could eventually shift how audiologists assess and rehabilitate hearing by better accounting for real-world listening environments.
✦ Key Points ✦
- 01JASA special issue focuses on ecological perspectives on hearing across human and non-human animals.
- 02The issue examines how auditory systems interact with natural, real-world sounds rather than lab stimuli.
- 03Content bridges basic auditory science and translational research.
- 04This is an introductory piece — no primary data are presented.
- 05Ecological frameworks may inform future hearing assessment and rehabilitation design.
✦ Research metadata ✦
- PMID
- 42496141
- DOI
- 10.1121/10.0044474.
- Journal
- Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Publication type
- editorial
- Evidence level
- na
- Intervention
- Ecological perspectives on hearing (special issue introduction)