Abstract
The development of human audition. The study of auditory development shows that the activity of the auditory system may be split into several functions. Each one of these functions can be measured using different techniques. The use of several techniques produces different results when we seek to know when the child achieves a similar competence to an adult. We put forward the most relevant experimental results and conclusions of the study of human auditory development. The aim is to offer an updated exposition evidencing the need for new models that compose and connect the heterogeneous results. The paper is divided in four sections: prenatal audition, a psychophysiological view of auditory development, a psychoacoustic view (loudness, pitch perception and spatial audition), and auditory recognition.
