“…The response of the human auditory system to overstimulation has been addressed in experiments using pure tone exposures [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8], different types of band-pass and broad-band noise [9,10,11,12,13,14], and impact and intermittent noises [15,16,17]. The exposure Received10August 2010, accepted 29 May 2011 levels vary from 20 dB SPL [5] up to 125 dB SPL [4] with exposure times ranging from minutes to days [10].…”