Sound & Hearing

Name: Sound & Hearing
Brand: Taylor & Francis Inc
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A Conceptual Introduction

By: R. Duncan Luce

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Hardcover | 1 June 1993 | Edition Number 1

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346 Pages

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The major aim of this book is to introduce the ways in which scientists approach and think about a phenomenon -- hearing -- that intersects three quite different disciplines: the physics of sound sources and the propagation of sound through air and other materials, the anatomy and physiology of the transformation of the physical sound into neural activity in the brain, and the psychology of the perception we call hearing. Physics, biology, and psychology each play a role in understanding how and what we hear.

The text evolved over the past decade in an attempt to convey something about scientific thinking, as evidenced in the domain of sounds and their perception, to students whose primary focus is not science. It does so using a minimum of mathematics (high school functions such as linear, logarithmic, sine, and power) without compromising scientific integrity. A significant enrichment is the availability of a compact disc (CD) containing over 20 examples of acoustic demonstrations referred to in the book. These demonstrations, which range from echo effects and filtered noise to categorical speech perception and total more than 45 minutes, are invaluable resources for making the text come alive.

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Transmission, Transduction, and Black Boxes
Signal Transmission
Signal Reception
Transducers
Black and Not-So-Black Boxes
Reductionism in Science
Descriptive Physics of Pure Tones
Propagation of Pulses
Generation of Waves
Wave Propagation in Time and Space
The Doppler Effect
Reflection and Refraction of Waves
Some Formal Material That Is Useful in Audition
Dimensions of Physical Quantities
Measuring Sound Intensity
Sound Attenuation Through a Change of Medium
Localizing a Sound Source
Resonance and Filters
Summary of the Main Concepts About Simple Waves
Further Reading
Properties of the Ear
The Outer and Middle Ears
The Inner Ear
Hair Cells and the Auditory Nerve
Neural Coding of Auditory Information
Interplay of Behavior and Physiology
Further Reading
Psychophysics of Pure Tones
The Issues of Psychophysics
Local Psychophysics
Global Psychophysics
Bridging Local and Global Psychophysics
Summary
Further Reading
Descriptive Physics of Complex Sounds
Superposition
Standing Waves
Synthesis of a Complex Wave in Terms of Harmonics
NonLinear Distortion
Noise
Summary
Further Reading
Psychophysics of Complex Sounds
Examples Where the Phenomenon Is Physical
Pure Tone Masking and Facilitation
Noise Masking and Facilitation
Illusory Pitch (or the Missing Fundamental)
Echoes and Reverberation
Perceptual Structuring of Sounds
Speech: A Special Perceptual Ability
Some Relations of Hearing to the Other Senses, Especially Vision
Further Reading
Exercises
Review Questions Covering the Entire Text
References
Appendix: The Demonstration Disk
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