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Perception 4/e Cover Image
Perception, 4/e
Robert Sekuler, Brandeis University
Randolph Blake, Vanderbilt University
Hearing and Listening

Chapter Outline

  1. THE RANGE AND LIMITS OF HEARING
  2. HEARING LOSS
    1. Conduction Hearing Loss and Possible Remedies
    2. Sensorial/Neural Loss
      1. Age and hearing loss
      2. Noise exposure and hearing loss
      3. Drugs and hearing loss
    3. Some Perceptual Consequence of Impaired Hearing
    4. Compensating for Hearing Loss
      1. Hearing aids
      2. Cochlear implants
    5. The Range of Hearing in Animals
  3. NOISE MASKING AND CRITICAL BANDS
  4. LOUDNESS PERCEPTION AND DISCRIMINATION
    1. How Loud is Loud?
    2. Neural Bases of Loudness Perception
    3. Loudness Discrimination
  5. PITCH PERCEPTION
    1. What is Pitch?
      1. Pitch and frequency are not synonymous
    2. The Neural Bases of Pitch Perception
    3. Perfect Pitch and Tone Deafness
  6. SOUND RECOGNITION: JUDGING WHAT THE SOURCE OF A SOUND IS
    1. Perceptual Organization of the Auditory Stream
      1. Common spectral content
      2. Common time course
      3. Spectral harmonics
      4. Familiarity
  7. SOUND LOCALIZATION: JUDGING WHERE A SOUND ORIGINATES
    1. Interaural Intensity Differences
    2. Interaural Time Differences
    3. The Cone of Confusion
    4. The Effectiveness of Interaural Time and Intensity Differences
    5. Sound (Mis)Localization
      1. Design features that minimize mislocalization errors
      2. Mislocalization: Sound heard through headphones
      3. Mislocalization: Ears versus eyes
      4. Do the eyes control sound localization accuracy?
  8. SOUND LOCALIZATION: JUDGING THE DISTANCE OF A SOUND SOURCE
    1. The Cocktail Party Effect: Masking and Unmasking Sound
  9. PERCEPTION OF SPEECH SOUNDS
    1. The Sounds of Speech
    2. The Neural Analysis of Speech Sounds
    3. Factors Influencing Speech Perception
      1. The role of feature detection in speech perception
      2. The role of context in speech perception
      3. The role of speech boundaries and intonation in speech perception
    4. Fine Temporal Structure in Language-Based Learning Impairments








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