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

Previous ed.: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-321) and index.

Part 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--1. 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--Part 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, stereocillia, 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 nonlinearneural responses--Function of the Efferent System--Encoding of frequency, intensity, and time--Summary--supplement--Part 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--Part 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--Disease and infections--Heredity--Relation between inner ear damage and hearing loss--Hair cell regeneration--Auditory central nervous system changes--Summary--Supplement.

This fifth edition expands the fundamental facts about hearing - the stimulus of sound, the anatomy and physiology of the auditory system and the perception of sound.