TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buser,Pierre A.
AU  - Imbert,Michel
TI  - Audition
SN  - 0262023318
AV  - QP461 .B9713 1992
U1  - 612.85 BUS I 20
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Hearing
N1  - Translation of: Audition; "A Bradford book."; Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-384) and index; Part 1 The physiological psychology of hearing: the basic characteristics of audible stimuli; oscillatory stimuli; auditory thresholds; suprathreshold hearing of pure tones; binural effects; tonal sensations, musical sounds and musical scales. Part 2 The auditory receptor system: morphology of the receptor system - the outer, middle and inner ear; physiology of the receptor organ - sound transmission - the outer and middle ear, bone conduction, sound reception and transduction in the cochlea - auditory signals in primary neurons, bioelectric phenomena in the cochlea, cochlear mechanics, cochlear transduction. Part 3 The auditory central nervous system - anatomy and function: the cochlear nuclei; the superior olivary complex; the nuclei of the lateral lemniscus; the inferior colliculus; the superior colliculus and acoustic space; the medial geniculate body; the auditory areas of the cortex; centrifugal activity in the auditory patherways; effects of central lesions on auditory perception; psychophysics of hearing and neurophysiological studies. Appendices: notes on deafness with a peripheral origin - types of deafness, clinical diagnosis of deafness, further comments on hearing deficits; auditory evoked potentials in human subjects
ER  -