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Psychoacoustics

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Sensory Systems: II

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Psychoacoustics, the study of the perception of sound and music, is having a wide impact on fields of basic research such as neuropsychology and cognitive psychology, and is also contributing to practical applications in music, particularly computer music and audio reproduction.

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Knispel, J.D. (1988). Psychoacoustics. In: Sensory Systems: II. Readings from the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience . Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6760-4_44

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