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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
What is the shortest duration of sound we can hear?

I assume this will vary depending on frequency and amplitude, but let's say if you adjust those so that we can get the absoutelu minimum of duration.
gpt
A quick lit search gives me 1.2ms (Irwin & Purdy, 1982). Also, people were shown to be able to recognize voice when stimuli were only 2ms long (Suied, et al., 2013)!

**References:**

Irwin, R. J., & Purdy, S. C. (1982). The minimum detectable duration of auditory signals for normal and hearing‐impaired listeners. *The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America*, 71(4), 967-974.

Suied, C., Agus, T. R., Thorpe, S. J., & Pressnitzer, D. (2013). Processing of short auditory stimuli: the rapid audio sequential presentation paradigm (RASP). In *Basic Aspects of Hearing* (pp. 443-451). Springer New York.