Hearing
eBook - PDF

Hearing

An Introduction to Psychological and Physiological Acoustics

  1. 392 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Hearing

An Introduction to Psychological and Physiological Acoustics

About this book

Hearing: An Introduction to Psychological and Physiological Acoustics is concerned with the physiology and psychophysics of audition. It aims to introduce the new student to the sciences of hearing and to rekindle the interests of the experienced reader. The book begins with an overview of the auditory system. This is followed by separate chapters on theories of hearing; the routes over which sound is conducted to the inner ear; the cochlear mechanism; the auditory nerve and pathways; and psychoacoustic methods. Subsequent chapters cover the theory of signal detection; how sensitivity for one sound is affected by the presence of another sound; loudness; pitch; aspects of binaural hearing; and speech perception. This book provides both an introduction and a broad overview of the field of hearing science for the advanced undergraduate student or the postgraduate student in such disciplines as audiology and psychology. It should be an extremely useful guide to these students, as well as to those researchers who wish to refresh their knowledge of the field beyond their areas of specialization.

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Information

eBook ISBN
9781483163765
Subtopic
Physiology

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Hearing: An Introduction to Psychological and Physiological Acoustics
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1. Anatomy
  9. Chapter 2. Hearing Theories and Sensory Action
  10. Chapter 3. Conductive Mechanism
  11. Chapter 4. Cochlear Mechanism
  12. Chapter 5. Auditory Nerve
  13. Chapter 6. Auditory Pathways
  14. Chapter 7. Psychoacoustic Methods
  15. Chapter 8. Theory of Signal Detection
  16. Chapter 9. Auditory Sensitivity
  17. Chapter 10. Masking
  18. Chapter 11. Loudness
  19. Chapter 12. Pitch
  20. Chapter 13. Binaural Hearing
  21. Chapter 14. SPEECH PERCEPTION
  22. Author Index
  23. Subject Index