Andrew Huberman· PhD
And I don't know that you'd want to expose a child to white noise the entire night, because it might degrade that tonotopic map.
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We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
And I don't know that you'd want to expose a child to white noise the entire night, because it might degrade that tonotopic map.
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But white noise actually can have a detrimental effect on auditory learning and maybe even the development of the auditory system in very young children in particular in infants.
However, there are data that indicate that white noise during development can be detrimental to the auditory system.
So one of the reasons why hearing a lot of white noise during development for long periods of time can be detrimental to the development of the auditory system is that these tonotopic maps don't form normally. At least they don't in experimental animals.