It may seem unlikely that minkeys or cats would be able to hear the subtleties in human speech. After all, creatures (1) than humans speak neither human nor comprehend most of them. (2), scientists who study hearing have found that the auditory (3) of animals and humans respond to speech sounds in remarkably (4) ways.Scientists see hearing in humans and higher animals (5) an act of computer-like processing (6) which a sound enters the ear and is broken down into components. These are tranported in some coded form through the nervous system to the brain, (7) they are put back together (8) interpreted.Scientists believe that in large part, how speech is processed is (9 acoustial in its properties. Research with (10) shows that they can discriminate among subtke nuances in speech. For example, our ears readily distinguish two similar (11) sounds, ' three ' and ' skin ' on the (12) of differing pitch changes that occur in the firat one-twntieth (13) a second of sound. During the 1970 's, William Stebbins conducted (14) asking monkeys at the University of Michigan hearing Hearing Institute which showed that monkeys possess a similar (15) sounds into distinct categories.
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