Auditory Perception of Sound Sources

by Yost, William A.; Popper, Arthur N.; Fay, Richard R.

• ISBN13: 9780387713045
• ISBN10: 0387713042
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This volume covers higher-level auditory processes that are perceptual processes. The chapters describe how humans and other animals perceive the sounds that they receive from the many sound sources existing in the world. This book will provide an overview of areas of current research involved with understanding how sound-source determination processes operate. This book will focus on psychophysics and perception as well as being relevant to basic auditory research.

Author Biography

About the editors: William A. Yost, Ph.D., is Chair and Professor of Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University. Arthur N. Popper is Professor in the Department of Biology and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing at the University of Maryland, College Park. Richard R. Fay is Director of the Parmly Hearing Institute and Professor of Psychology at Loyola University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Series Preface	p. vii
Volume Preface	p. ix
Contributors	p. xi
Perceiving Sound Sources	p. 1
Human Sound Source Identification	p. 13
Size Information in the Production and Perception of Communication Sounds	p. 43
The Role of Memory in Auditory Perception	p. 77
Auditory Attention and Filters	p. 115
Informational Masking	p. 143
Effects of Harmonicity and Regularity on the Perception of Sound Sources	p. 191
Spatial Hearing and Perceiving Sources	p. 215
Envelope Processing and Sound-Source Perception	p. 233
Speech as a Sound Source	p. 281
Sound Source Perception and Stream Segregation in Nonhuman Vertebrate Animals	p. 307
Index	p. 325
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