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Psychoacoustics is concerned with the relationships between the physical characteristics of sounds and their perceptual attributes. This chapter describes: the absolute sensitivity of the auditory system for detecting weak sounds and how that sensitivity varies with frequency; the frequency selectivity of the auditory system (the ability to resolve or hear out the sinusoidal components in a complex sound) and its characterization in terms of an array of auditory filters; the processes that influence the masking of one sound by another; the range of sound levels that can be processed by the auditory system; the perception and modeling of loudness; level discrimination; the temporal resolution of the auditory system (the ability to detect changes over time); the perception and modeling of pitch for pure and complex tones; the perception of timbre for steady and time-varying sounds; the perception of space and sound localization; and the mechanisms underlying auditory scene analysis that allow the construction of percepts corresponding to individual sounds sources when listening to complex mixtures of sounds.

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Abbreviations

2AFC:

two-alternative forced choice

AM:

amplitude modulation

ANSI:

American National Standards Institute

BM:

basilar membrane

CD:

compact disc

CF:

characteristic frequency

DL:

difference limen

DLF:

difference limen for frequency

ERB:

equivalent rectangular bandwidth

FM:

frequency modulation

FMDL:

frequency modulation detection limen

HL:

hearing level

HTL:

hearing threshold level

ISO:

International Organization for Standardization

ITD:

interaural time difference

MAF:

minimum audible field

MAP:

minimum audible pressure

MLD:

masking level difference

PTC:

psychophysical tuning curve

SL:

sensation level

SPL:

sound pressure level

TMTF:

temporal modulation transfer function

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