Trauma and auditory processing: Stephen Porges (polyvagal theory) writes about how people in fear states are more attuned to low frequency background noises (danger! lions! growling!) and less sensitive to the higher frequencies of human voice. 1/
I find this a really interesting parallel, which I learnt about from @mykola - although as I said to him I think it's worth avoiding the sloppy thinking of 'oh the audio processing isn't an autism thing per se it's just traumatised autistic people' - which doesn't stack up IME.
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Yeah, I'm very much wanting to understand more about how different factors contribute. And how it ties in to more general research on the "cocktail party effect" of picking out one audio stream from background noise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect …
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I've not heard that phrase before, nice. Yes it's a very interesting area that I'd like to know more about also. Fwiw I don't think the piece you linked implied that connection I was criticising, but it's worth mentioning I suppose.
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