Fundamentals of hearing
Subtitle: an introduction
By: William A. Yost.
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780123704733
Subjects: Hearing
Description: Introductory text on hearing sciences includes auditory, anatomy, physiology, psychoacoustics, and perception content. It is one of only a few textbooks that covers all of hearing at an introductory level. A meaningful introduction to hearing for students and a wealth of data and facts related to hearing for the professional, it is heavily illustrated with over 200 figures. Each chapter concludes with a Supplement section with additional resources about topics covered. Appendices provide background information to enable full comprehension of content. It contains a complete Glossary of terms from the American Standards Institute, a combined subject/author index, and a comprehensive bibliography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-321) and index.
Table of contents: title: The world we hear, an introduction; title: Sinusoids, the basic sound; title: Sound transmission and sound propagation; title: Complex sounds; title: Sound analysis; title: The outer and middle ears; title: Structure of the inner ear and its mechanical response; title: Peripheral auditory nervous system and hair cells; title: The neural response and the auditory code; title: Auditory sensitivity; title: Masking; title: Sound localization and binaural hearing; title: Loudness and pitch; title: Auditory perception; title: The central auditory nervous system; title: The abnormal auditory system.