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Fundamentals of Hearing: An Introduction Fifth Edition CONTENTS PREFACE CHAPTER 1 The World We Hear, An Introduction Hearing Normal Human Hearing and the Plan of the Book Brief History of the Study of Hearing Hearing and Science Summary Supplement PART I: THE AUDITORY STIMULUS: SOUND CHAPTER 2 Sinusoids, The Basic Sound Sinusoids Frequency Starting Phase Amplitude Damped Vibrations Summary Supplement CHAPTER 3 Sound Transmission Sound Propagation Pressure and Sound Intensity Decibels Interference Sound Fields Summary Supplement CHAPTER 4 Complex Stimuli Complex Stimuli Transients Beats and Amplitude Modulation Square Wave Frequency Modulation Noise Narrowband Noise, Envelope, and Fine Structure Summary Supplement CHAPTER 5 Sound Analysis Resonators Filters Nonlinearities Sound and Its Analysis Summary Supplement PART II: PERIPHERAL AUDITORY ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY CHAPTER 6 The Outer and Middle Ears Structure of the Outer Ear Structure of the Middle Ear Function of the Outer Ear Torso, Head, Pinna Outer Ear Tympanic Membrane Function of the Inner Ear Middle Ear Impedances Impedances Non-Ossicular Function of the Middle Ear Summary Supplement CHAPTER 7 Structure of the Inner Ear and Its Mechanical Response Structure of the Inner Ear Mechanical Response of the Inner Ear Summary Supplement Chapter 8 Peripheral Auditory Nervous System and Hair Cells Cochlear Potentials Resting Potentials Summating Potentials Cochlear Microphonic Auditory Action Potential Hair Cells, Stereocilia, Outer Hair Cell Motility, and Neural Transduction Outer Hair Cell Motility Inner Hair Cells, the Auditory Biological Transducer The Role of Inner and Outer Hair Cells Cochlear Emissions Structure of the Auditory Nerve Afferent Nerves Efferent Nerves Organization of the Auditory Nerve Bundle Summary Supplement CHAPTER 9 The Neural Response and the Auditory Code Function of the Afferent Auditory Nerve Spontaneous Activity and Neural Threshold Rate-Level Functions Response Areas and Tuning Curves Histograms Two-Tone Suppression and Other Nonlinear Neural Responses Function of the Efferent System Encoding of Frequency, Intensity, and Time Modeling of the Auditory Periphery Summary Supplement PART III: AUDITORY SENSATION CHAPTER 10 Auditory Sensitivity Thresholds of Audibility Duration Temporal Integration Differential Sensitivity Frequency Discrimination Level/Intensity Discrimination Temporal Discrimination Temporal Modulation Transfer Functions Summary Supplement CHAPTER 11 Masking Tonal Masking Noise Masking Critical Band and the Internal Filter Relationship between Excitation Patterns and Critical Bands Temporal Masking Tonal-Temporal Masking Summary Supplement CHAPTER 12 Sound Localization and Binaural Hearing Localization Localization in Azimuth Localization in the Front-Back Direction and in the Vertical Plane Localization as a Function of Distance Interactions of the Source Sound and the Cues Used for Sound Localization Precedence-Localization in Reverberant Spaces Lateralization Localization versus Lateralization Binaural Masking Summary Supplement CHAPTER 13 Loudness and Pitch Loudness Pitch Complex Pitch Nonlinear Tones Other Subjective Attributes of Sound Summary Supplement PART IV: AUDITORY PERCEPTION, THE CNS, and AUDITORY DISORDERS CHAPTER 14 Auditory Perception Spectral Separation Spectral Profile Harmonicity Spatial Separation Temporal Separation Temporal Onsets and Offsets Temporal Modulations Speech Music Perception Summary Supplement CHAPTER 15 The Central Auditory Nervous System Anatomy of the Central Auditory Pathways Strategies for Studying the Central Auditory System Topographical Organization Excitation and Inhibition Single-Fiber Responses Neural Circuits Evoked Potentials Brain Images Cochlear Nucleus Superior Olivary Complex Inferior Colliculus Auditory Cortex Summary Supplement CHAPTER 16 The Abnormal Auditory System Damage to the Auditory System Hearing Loss Due to Noise Exposure Effects of Noise on the Inner Ear TTS as a Function of Level, Duration, Spectral Content, and Temporal Pattern Recovery of Hearing after Noise Exposure Ototoxic Drugs Aging Diseases and Infections Heredity Relationship Between Inner Ear Damage and Hearing Loss Hair Cell Regeneration Auditory Central Nervous System Changes Summary Supplement APPENDIX A Sinusoids and Trigonometry Using Sinusoids to describe Acoustic Events Nonlinearity Vectors APPENDIX B Logarithms Decibels < APPENDIX C Fourier Analysis APPENDIX D Psychophysics Classical Psychophysics Theory of Signal Detection Direct Scaling Matching Procedures APPENDIX E Neural Anatomy and Physiology Anatomy Neural Anatomy Physiology Neural Physiology APPENDIX F Techniques and Tools Used to Study Hearing Signal Processing Microscopy Neural Stains and Markers Electrophysiology Imaging Biophysical Techniques Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics Terms, Measurements, Equations, and Conversions Anatomical and Physiological Measurements Symbols Used in Each Chapter References (Primary, Secondary, Standards) Subject Index and Glossary
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Hearing.
Hearing -- physiology.
Auditory Perception -- physiology.
Ear -- anatomy & histology.