TY - BOOK AU - Yost,William A. TI - Fundamentals of hearing: an introduction SN - 012772690X (acidfree paper) AV - QP461 .Y67 1994 U1 - 612.85 YOS 20 PY - 1994/// CY - San Diego PB - Academic Press KW - Hearing N1 - 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 ER -