Fundamentals of hearing : : an introduction / / William A. Yost.

• VerfasserIn: Yost, William A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bingley, England : : Emerald Group Publishing Limited,, [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: Fifth edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1 The World We Hear, An Introduction -- Hearing -- Normal Human Hearing and Plan of the Book -- Brief History of the Study of Hearing -- Hearing and Science -- Summary -- Supplement -- I The Auditory Stimulus: Sound -- 2 Sinusoids, The Basic Sound -- Vibration -- Sinusoids -- Frequency -- Starting Phase -- Amplitude -- Damped Vibrations -- Summary -- Supplement -- 3 Sound Transmission and Sound Propagation -- Sound Propagation -- Pressure and Sound Intensity -- Decibels -- Interference -- Sound Fields -- Summary -- Supplement -- 4 Complex Sounds -- Complex Stimuli -- Transients -- Beats and Amplitude Modulation -- Square Wave -- Frequency Modulation -- Noise -- Narrowband Noise, Envelope, and Fine Structure -- Summary -- Supplement -- 5 Sound Analysis -- Resonators -- Filters -- Nonlinearities -- Sound and Its Analysis -- Summary -- Supplement -- II Peripheral Auditory Anatomy and Physiology -- 6 The Outer and Middle Ears -- Structure of the Outer Ear -- Structure of the Middle Ear -- Function of the Outer Ear -- Function of the Middle Ear -- Middle Ear and Inner Ear Impedances -- Summary -- Supplement -- 7 Structure of the Inner Ear and Its Mechanical Response -- Structure of the Inner Ear -- Mechanical Response of the Inner Ear -- Summary -- Supplement -- 8 Peripheral Auditory Nervous System and Hair Cells -- Cochlear Potentials -- Hair Cells, Stereocilia, Outer Hair Cell Motility, and Neural Transduction -- Cochlear Emissions -- Structure of the Auditory Nerve -- Summary -- Supplement -- 9 The Neural Response and the Auditory Code -- Function of the Afferent Auditory Nerve -- Two-Tone Suppression and Other Nonlinear Neural Responses -- Function of the Efferent System -- Encoding of Frequency, Intensity, and Time -- Summary -- Supplement.

III Auditory Sensation -- 10 Auditory Sensitivity -- Thresholds of Audibility -- Duration -- Temporal Integration -- Differential Sensitivity -- Frequency Discrimination -- Level/Intensity Discrimination -- Temporal Discrimination -- Temporal Modulation Transfer Functions -- Summary -- Supplement -- 11 Masking -- Tonal Masking -- Noise Masking -- Critical Band and the Internal Filter -- Relationship Between Excitation Patterns and Critical Bands -- Temporal Masking -- Tonal-Temporal Masking -- Masking Used to Measure Nonlinear Compression -- Summary -- Supplement -- 12 Sound Localization and Binaural Hearing -- Localization -- Precedence-Localization in Reverberant Spaces -- Lateralization -- Localization Versus Lateralization -- Binaural Masking -- Summary -- Supplement -- 13 Loudness and Pitch -- Loudness -- Pitch -- Nonlinear Tones -- Other Subjective Attributes of Sound -- Summary -- Supplement -- IV Auditory Perception, the Central Nervous System, and Auditory Disorders -- 14 Auditory Perception -- Perception of Sound Sources (Sound Source Determination) -- Speech -- Music Perception -- Summary -- Supplement -- 15 The Central Auditory Nervous System -- Anatomy of the Central Auditory Pathways -- Strategies for Studying the Central Auditory System -- Cochlear Nucleus -- Superior Olivary Complex -- Inferior Colliculus -- Auditory Cortex -- Summary -- Supplement -- 16 The Abnormal Auditory System -- Damage to the Auditory System -- Effects of Noise on the Inner Ear -- Ototoxic Drugs -- Aging -- Diseases and Infections -- Heredity -- Relation Between Inner Ear Damage and Hearing Loss -- Hair Cell Regeneration -- Auditory Central Nervous System Changes -- Summary -- Supplement -- Appendix A: Sinusoids and Trigonometry -- Using Sinusoids to Describe Acoustic Events -- Nonlinearity -- Vectors -- Appendix B: Logarithms -- Decibels.

Appendix C: Fourier Analysis -- Appendix D: Psychophysics -- Classical Psychophysics -- Theory of Signal Detection (TSD) -- Direct Scaling -- Matching Procedures -- Appendix E: Neural Anatomy and Physiology -- Anatomy -- Neural Anatomy -- Physiology -- Neural Physiology -- Electrophysiology -- Appendix F: Techniques and Tools Used to Study Hearing -- Signal Processing -- Microscopy -- Neural Stains and Markers -- Electrophysiology -- Imaging -- Biophysical Techniques -- Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics -- Terms, Measurements, Equations, and Conversions -- Anatomical and Physiological Measurements -- Abbreviations and Symbols Used in the Text -- References (Primary, Secondary, Standards) -- Subject Index and Glossary.