Auditory neuroscience : making sense of sound / Jan Schnupp, Israel Nelken, and Andrew King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schnupp, Jan, 1966-

Contributor:

Nelken, Israel, 1961-

King, Andrew, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Auditory perception.

Auditory pathways.

Hearing.

Physical Description:

x, 356 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An integrated overview of hearing and the interplay of physical, biological, and psychological processes underlying it.Every time we listen--to speech, to music, to footsteps approaching or retreating--our auditory perception is the result of a long chain of diverse and intricate processes that unfold within the source of the sound itself, in the air, in our ears, and, most of all, in our brains. Hearing is an "everyday miracle" that, despite its staggering complexity, seems effortless. This book offers an integrated account of hearing in terms of the neural processes that take place in different parts of the auditory system.Because hearing results from the interplay of so many physical, biological, and psychological processes, the book pulls together the different aspects of hearing--including acoustics, the mathematics of signal processing, the physiology of the ear and central auditory pathways, psychoacoustics, speech, and music--into a coherent whole.

Contents:

Why things sound the way they do

The ear

Periodicity and pitch perception : physics, psychophysics, and neural mechanisms

Hearing speech

Neural basis of sound localization

Auditory scene analysis

Development, learning, and plasticity

Auditory prostheses : from the lab to the clinic and back again.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-29681-0

1-283-02010-6

9786613020109

0-262-28975-X

OCLC:

707078796