Fundamentals of hearing :
Yost, William A.
Fundamentals of hearing : an introduction / William A. Yost. - 3rd ed. - San Diego : Academic Press, c1994. - xiii, 326 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
012772690X (acidfree paper)
93001529
Hearing.
Hearing.
QP461 / .Y67 1994
612.85 YOS
Fundamentals of hearing : an introduction / William A. Yost. - 3rd ed. - San Diego : Academic Press, c1994. - xiii, 326 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
012772690X (acidfree paper)
93001529
Hearing.
Hearing.
QP461 / .Y67 1994
612.85 YOS