Fundamentals of Hearing
Third Edition
3rd Edition
Published on 1. January 1994
Book
Hardback
326 pages
978-0-12-772690-8 (ISBN)
Description
The third edition of Yost's successful introductory book on hearing, this edition completely updates and expands the fundamental facts about hearing - the stimulus of sound, the anatomy and physiology of the auditory system and the perception of sound. This textbook is a thorough compilation of information and facts about the science of hearing. Various topics are introduced and developed carefully, with supplemental material to help students understand basic concepts relative to audition and hearing. The book is written in a scientific manner, with facts thoroughly documented and referenced. This volume presents a giant accumulation of information.
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Edition
3rd New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
glossary, index
ISBN-13
978-0-12-772690-8 (9780127726908)
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William Yost
Fundamentals of Hearing
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01/1977
Holt, Rinehart & Winston
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Content
The auditory stimulus - sinusoids, the basic sound, sound transmission, complex stimulus, sound analysis; peripheral auditory anatomy and physiology - the outer and middle ears, structure of the inner ear and its biomechanical response, peripheral auditory nervous system and hair cells, the neural response and the auditory code; auditory perception of simple sounds - auditory sensitivity, masking, binaural hearing, loudness and pitch, noise; complex sound processing and the central nervous system - auditory perception and sound source determination, the central auditory nervous system. Appendices: sinusoids and trigonometry; logarithms; Fourier analysis; psychophysics; neural anatomy and physiology; techniques and tools used to study hearing; list of abbreviations and symbols; references and index of names; glossary and subject index.