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Record Nr.

UNINA9910557424703321

Autore

Blauert Jens

Titolo

Spatial hearing : the psychophysics of human sound localization / / Jens Blauert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c1997

ISBN

0-262-26868-X

0-585-23825-1

Edizione

[Rev. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 494 p. ) : ill. ;

Collana

The MIT Press

Disciplina

152.1/58

Soggetti

Directional hearing

Psychoacoustics

Sound Localization

Auditory Perception

Psychophysics

Perception

Audiometry

Mental Processes

Behavioral Disciplines and Activities

Behavioral Sciences

Hearing Tests

Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures

Diagnostic Techniques, Otological

Diagnosis

Psychiatry

Psychological Phenomena

Therapeutics

Neuroscience

Human Anatomy & Physiology

Health & Biological Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-480) and indexes.



Sommario/riassunto

The field of spatial hearing has exploded in the decade or so since Jens Blauert's classic work on acoustics was first published in English. This revised edition adds a new chapter that describes developments in such areas as auditory virtual reality (an important field of application that is based mainly on the physics of spatial hearing), binaural technology (modeling speech enhancement by binaural hearing), and spatial sound-field mapping. The chapter also includes recent research on the precedence effect that provides clear experimental evidence that cognition plays a significant role in spatial hearing. The remaining four chapters in this comprehensive reference cover auditory research procedures and psychometric methods, spatial hearing with one sound source, spatial hearing with multiple sound sources and in enclosed spaces, and progress and trends from 1972 (the first German edition) to 1983 (the first English edition)—work that includes research on the physics of the external ear, and the application of signal processing theory to modeling the spatial hearing process. There is an extensive bibliography of more than 900 items.