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Audition / Pierre Buser and Michel Imbert ; translated by R.H. Kay.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1992.Description: x, 394 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0262023318
Uniform titles: Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 612.85 BUS I 20
LOC classification:
  • QP461 .B9713 1992
Contents:
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.
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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.

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