Originally Posted by borked

Yeah, I dunno about what sound level a dog's ears can hear to, but their ears can hear a much wider frequency than ours for sure. So maybe there are certain pitches involved that he responds to.

Here is a very interesting read:
http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/%7Ecfc/Simons1999.pdf

Selective blindness - the same I suppose can be attributed to selective deafness. I know when our kids are rambling about nothing at all to my wife saying "maman, blah blah blah blah" she is 100% deaf to them as really what they are saying is absolutely not important at all. However, I have not acquired this deafness at all and it's excruciatingly painful to listen to them being ignored! Now, the little one can fall off the slide in the garden onto grass, which to me makes no noise at all, and the missus can be inside at the other end of the house, and it *will* be "heard". It really did happen once, and it amazed me - she said she "knew something was wrong".


Some shit, science cannot explain