Auditory Perception. A New Synthesis

✍ Scribed by Richard M. Warren, Arnold P. Goldstein and Leonard Krasner (Auth.)

• Publisher: Pergamon Press
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This new edition of Auditory Perception: A New Synthesis, a book originally published by Pergamon Press (1982), describes the nature of sound, how it is analyzed by the auditory system, and the rules and principles governing our interpretation of auditory input. It guides the reader through the physics of sound and the anatomy and physiology of the inner ear and nervous system before embarking on an explanation of how experiments reveal the means by which we locate and identify sound sources and events, and how we recognize and interpret the patterns of music and speech. The new material includes discoveries concerning cochlear mechanics and neural transduction, processes involved in the perceptual restoration of portions of signals obliterated by extraneous sounds, and the manner in which sequences of sounds including those of speech and music, are organized into recognizable patterns. In addition, a chapter on speech describes how processes employed for the perception of brief nonverbal sounds are used for the organization of syllables and words, along with an overlay of special linguistic mechanisms. The book comes with an accompanying CD-ROM containing audio demonstrations, allowing the reader to experience directly some of the auditory illusions that have been described, and providing new insight into the mechanisms employed in perceptual organization. Advance undergraduate and graduate students interested in auditory perception in behavioral sciences, psychology, neurobiology, and speech and hearing sciences, will find this book an excellent advanced guide to the subject

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Pergamon Titles of Related Interest, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
Preface, Pages xiii-xiv
1 - Sound and the Auditory System, Pages 1-30
2 - Spatial Localization and Binaural Hearing, Pages 31-58
3 - Perception of Acoustic Repetition: Pitch and Infrapitch, Pages 59-103
4 - The Measurement of Loudness and Pitch, Pages 104-118
5 - Perception of Acoustic Sequences, Pages 119-139
6 - Perceptual Restoration of Missing Sounds, Pages 140-155
7 - Speech, Pages 156-187
8 - The Relation of Hearing to Other Senses, Pages 188-195
References, Pages 197-219
Author Index, Pages 221-227
Subject Index, Pages 229-237
About the Author, Page 239