Absolute threshold of hearing
The quietest sound level a listener can detect at a given frequency in silence.
At a glance
Key signals
100% cross fields · reaches 5 more
- Psychoacoustics
- Audiology
- Explanation
- Examples
- Misconception
- Sourced relations 2
- Attribution
Dependencies
What this concept builds on and what it makes possible — derived from the atlas’s dependency, causal and structural relations, not from every related edge.
Foundations · builds on
Absolute threshold of hearingdepends onFrequencyEstablished
absolute threshold of hearing depends on frequency.
Mechanism: Sensitivity is best around 2–5 kHz and worse at the extremes.
- Wikipedia (English & German editions) verifiedmoderate evidence
Structural role & consequence
Interpreted from the current atlas graph — what the connections mean, not just how many there are.
100% of its relationships cross field boundaries, reaching 5 other disciplines — unusual in a discipline where most concepts stay within their field.
structural · Structural graph analysis — not a claim of importance, causation or history.
Currently dark in the atlas: no key date stored · 2 of 2 of its relations lack claim-level evidence.
atlas representation · Describes the current Thinking OS representation, not the state of the world.
Builds on 1 foundation (requires / depends-on / derived-from / emerges-from).
structural · Structural graph analysis — not a claim of importance, causation or history.
Structural neighbourhood: 2 → 19 → 78 concepts reachable within 3 hops.
structural · Structural reach — being reachable is not the same as being understood.
cross-field
0 within-field, 2 cross-field
Strengths & constraints
Strengths
- Cross-disciplinary connector — 100% of its relationships cross field boundaries. structural
- Redundantly connected — removing it leaves the sampled cross-field routes unchanged. structural
Constraints
- Evidence coverage currently thin in the atlas — few of its relationships carry claim-level evidence. atlas representation
- No dated history stored — the atlas records no key date for this concept. atlas representation
Conditions
- Its dependency reading rests on 1 foundation relation. structural
- Read structurally — most of its relationships carry no external evidence yet, so claims here are graph-derived. structural
Dependency radial
What this concept builds on (left) and what it makes possible (right) — derived from dependency and causal relations.
Seen through each discipline
How this concept sits in each of its fields — derived from its real connections in the graph, not asserted.
Absolute threshold of hearing is studied in this field.
Absolute threshold of hearing through the Psychoacoustics lens →
Absolute threshold of hearing is studied in this field.
Related ideas to explore
Concepts that look related but are not yet connected here — candidates for a connection to reason about, not established links.
This idea also appears in…
The same structure shows up in other disciplines. These are real recurrences drawn from the graph — a starting point for asking “what carries over, and what changes?”
Thresholds & tipping points23 disciplines · 18 concepts
Concepts
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Mental models at work here
- Connects 2 other ideas across 2 disciplines.
- A cross-disciplinary bridge — its connections reach into 5 other fields.
- Most of its connections are of the “Dependency” kind.
- It exercises 1 reusable thinking pattern.
Derived from the graph’s real structure — observations, not a score.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English & German editions) verifiedmoderate evidence