Q: studies of how hair / earpiercings do (/don't) affect hearing? Options

[Porcus]

Links / sources, anyone? I'm curious, and a web search only led me to numerous discussions (typically uneducated ones) on whether the nerves could be damaged by a tragus piercing, and not anything on e.g. how big jewelry must be in order to be 'earplug'-alike distortion.

_{(And no, I won't be seen dead with a combover. Find another lab rat.)}

[Dynamic]

If you want academic discussions in reputable peer-reviewed literature, Google Scholar's search functions will improve your search's signal to noise ratio immensely, so long as you adhere to scholarly terms and ideally spelling conventions (e.g. mostly United States English spellings are conventional in papers unless referring to Standards/Trademarks created in different variants of English, though Google is often helpful with 'did you mean' suggestions)

[Porcus]

If you want academic discussions in reputable peer-reviewed literature, Google Scholar's search functions will improve your search's signal to noise ratio immensely, so long as you adhere to scholarly terms and ideally spelling conventions (e.g. mostly United States English spellings are conventional in papers unless referring to Standards/Trademarks created in different variants of English, though Google is often helpful with 'did you mean' suggestions)

Thanks for the tip, although I am enough g33k to know. Hair's the problem (pun intended): much more scientific literature on those hair cells that are inside the ear

[mzil]

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=le...350&bih=688

The second hit looks promising.

I once did a search and tried everything I could think of: "LP, record, vinyl, phonograph record, 33, 45, 78, album, record album, phono, record player, phono recording..."

Turns out I stumbled upon the paper I wanted by other means, but the pay dirt paper called them "commercial discs".

[Porcus]

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=le...350&bih=688

HRTF it is! Thanks.