an introduction Yost, William A. creator text bibliography cau San Diego Academic Press c1994 1994 3rd ed. monographic eng

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xiii, 326 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. 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. William A. Yost. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Hearing Hearing QP461 .Y67 1994 612.85 YOS 012772690X (acidfree paper) 93001529 DLC 930406 20190927153405.0 2049087