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Fundamentals of hearing : an introduction / William A. Yost.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: San Diego : Academic Press, c1994.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xiii, 326 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 012772690X (acidfree paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 612.85 YOS 20
LOC classification:
  • QP461 .Y67 1994
Contents:
The auditory stimulus - sinusoids, the basic sound, sound transmission, complex stimulus, sound analysis; peripheral auditory anatomy and physiology - the outer and middle ears, structure of the inner ear and its biomechanical response, peripheral auditory nervous system and hair cells, the neural response and the auditory code; auditory perception of simple sounds - auditory sensitivity, masking, binaural hearing, loudness and pitch, noise; complex sound processing and the central nervous system - auditory perception and sound source determination, the central auditory nervous system. Appendices: sinusoids and trigonometry; logarithms; Fourier analysis; psychophysics; neural anatomy and physiology; techniques and tools used to study hearing; list of abbreviations and symbols; references and index of names; glossary and subject index.
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The auditory stimulus - sinusoids, the basic sound, sound transmission, complex stimulus, sound analysis; peripheral auditory anatomy and physiology - the outer and middle ears, structure of the inner ear and its biomechanical response, peripheral auditory nervous system and hair cells, the neural response and the auditory code; auditory perception of simple sounds - auditory sensitivity, masking, binaural hearing, loudness and pitch, noise; complex sound processing and the central nervous system - auditory perception and sound source determination, the central auditory nervous system. Appendices: sinusoids and trigonometry; logarithms; Fourier analysis; psychophysics; neural anatomy and physiology; techniques and tools used to study hearing; list of abbreviations and symbols; references and index of names; glossary and subject index.

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