Abstract
Psychoacoustic research with non-human species is very time consuming, but provides invaluable information about the underlying bases of hearing and its importance to humans and other species. Although most of Dick Fay's research has been evaluated the psychoacoustic abilities of one species of fish, he consistently compared this data with similar data from other vertebrates. He was not content to present data from one or two other species, but searched the literature to ensure that all possible comparisons were accessed to produce excellent figures combining this data. He made all the data he extracted from the literature available in an invaluable book (Fay, R. R. (1988). Hearing in Vertebrates: A Psychophysics Databook. Winnetka, IL: Hill-Fay Associates). This data are now being made available online on http://www.fayfoundation.org/category/hearing-in-vertebrates-a-psychophysics-databook/, a tool which will continue to stimulate research into the similarities and differences of psychoacoustic abilities in vertebrate species.
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