Auditory Neuroscience: Making Sense of Sound

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MIT Press, 2011 - Medical - 356 pages

An integrated overview of hearing and the interplay of physical, biological, and psychological processes underlying it.

 

Contents

1 Why Things Sound the Way They Do
1
2 The Ear
51
3 Periodicity and Pitch Perception
93
4 Hearing Speech
139
5 Neural Basis of Sound Localization
177
6 Auditory Scene Analysis
223
7 Development Learning and Plasticity
269
8 Auditory Prostheses
295
Notes
321
References
323
Index
347
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Jan Schnupp,Israel Nelken,Andrew J. King
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Jan Schnupp,Israel Nelken,Andrew J. King
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Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2011)

Jan Schnupp is Professor of Neuroscience and Codirector of the Auditory Neuroscience ResearchGroup in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics at Oxford University and a Fellow ofSt. Peter's College. Israel Nelken is Professor in the Department of Neurobiology in the Alexander SilbermanInstitute of Life Sciences and a member of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences atthe Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Andrew King is Professor of Neurophysiology, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, andCodirector of the Auditory Neuroscience Research Group in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy, andGenetics at Oxford University and a Fellow of Merton College.

Bibliographic information

TitleAuditory Neuroscience: Making Sense of Sound
AuthorsJan Schnupp, Israel Nelken, Andrew King
Editionillustrated
PublisherMIT Press, 2011
ISBN026211318X, 9780262113182
Length356 pages
Subjects › 

Medical / Audiology & Speech Pathology
Medical / Internal Medicine
Medical / Neuroscience
Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
  
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