Auditory perception is our main gateway to communication with others via speech and
music, and it also plays an important role in alerting and orienting us to new events. This …

Pitch is one of the primary auditory sensations and plays a defining role in music, speech,
and auditory scene analysis. Although the main physical correlate of pitch is acoustic …

The book you are about to read is about research that asks questions like" How do our
senses operate?"" What is the connection between nervous system activity and perception?" …

This fully updated and revised sixth edition of Hearing: An Introduction to Psychological and
Physiological Acoustics provides a comprehensive introduction for graduate students and …

The Sense of Hearing is a highly accessible introduction to auditory perception, addressing
the fundamental aspects of hearing. This fourth edition has been revised to include up-to …

Musical pitch perception is argued to result from nonmusical biological constraints and thus
to have similar characteristics across cultures, but its universality remains unclear. We …

The relative importance of neural temporal and place coding in auditory perception is still a
matter of much debate. The current article is a compilation of viewpoints from leading …

Perception is thought to be shaped by the environments for which organisms are optimized.
These influences are difficult to test in biological organisms but may be revealed by machine …

The book is concerned with changes in the perception of sound that are associated with
hearing loss and aging. Hearing loss affects about 7% of the population in developed …

Variations in the spectral shape of harmonic tone complexes are perceived as timbre
changes and can lead to poorer fundamental frequency (F0) or pitch discrimination. Less is …