| Contents |
The ear and how it works ; The auditory brain / Max Mathews -- Cognitive psychology and music / Roger Shepard -- Sound waves and sine waves ; Introduction to pitch perception / John Pierce -- What is loudness? ; Introduction to timbre / Mathews -- Hearing in time and space / Pierce -- Voice physics and neurology / Perry R. Cook -- Stream segregation and ambiguity in audition / Shepard -- Formant peaks and spectral valleys ; Articulation in speech and sound /Cook -- Pitch perception and measurement / Shepard -- Consonance and scales / Pierce -- Tonal structure and scales / Shepard --Pitch, periodicity, and noice in the voice / Cook -- Memory for musical attributes / Daniel J. Levitin -- Haptics ; Haptics in manipulation / Brent Gillespie -- Perceptual fusion and auditory perspective / John Chowning -- Passive nonlinearities in acoustics ; Storage and reproduction of music / Pierce -- Experimental design in psychoacoustic research / Levitin. |
| Abstract |
How hearing works and how the brain processes sounds entering the ear to provide the listener with useful information are of great interest to psychologists, cognitive scientists, and musicians. However, while a number of books have concentrated on individual aspects of this field, known as psychoacoustics, there has been no comprehensive introductory coverage of the multiple topics encompassed under the term. This is the first book to provide that coverage, and it does so via a unique and useful approach. |
| Local note | Joyner-JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOFTWARE LOCATED AT CALL NUMBER: MusicLib SW-17. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other forms | Also available via the World Wide Web. |
| Technical details | System requirements for accompanying computer disc: Apple Macintosh, Windows 95/98 or NT, or Unix computer; CD-ROM drive. |
| LCCN | 98016783 |
| ISBN | 0262032562 (hc : alk. paper) |
