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Auditory perception of sound sources

William A. Yost, Arthur N. Popper, Richard R. Fay, editors

(Springer handbook of auditory research, v. 29)

Springer, c2008

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Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume covers the higher-level auditory processes that are part of animal perception. The chapters describe how humans and other animals perceive the sounds that they receive from the many sound sources existing in the world. This book provides an overview of areas of current research involved with understanding how sound-source determination processes operate. It focuses on psychophysics and perception as well as being relevant to basic auditory research.

Table of Contents

Perceiving Sound Sources.- Human Sound Source Identification.- Size Information in the Production and Perception of Communication Sounds.- The Role of Memory in Auditory Perception.- Auditory Attention and Filters.- Informational Masking.- Effects of Harmonicity and Regularity on the Perception of Sound Sources.- Spatial Hearing and Perceiving Sources.- Envelope Processing and Sound-Source Perception.- Speech as a Sound Source.- Sound Source Perception and Stream Segregation in Nonhuman Vertebrate Animals.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA8458761X
  • ISBN
    • 9780387713045
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 331 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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