Complex broadband sounds are decomposed by the auditory filters into a series of relatively
narrowband signals, each of which can be considered as a slowly varying envelope (E) …

Auditory perception is our main gateway to communication with others via speech and
music, and it also plays an important role in alerting and orienting us to new events. This …

Now available in a sixth edition, An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing is the leading
textbook in the field of auditory perception, also known as psychoacoustics. The textbooks …

This book deals with the way that the auditory system processes acoustic signals. The
current edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect the progress that has been made since …

An important topic in contemporary auditory science is supra-threshold hearing. Difficulty
hearing at conversational speech levels in background noise has long been recognized as …

Perceptual consequences of disrupted auditory nerve activity were systematically studied in
21 subjects who had been clinically diagnosed with auditory neuropathy (AN), a recently …

The relative importance of neural temporal and place coding in auditory perception is still a
matter of much debate. The current article is a compilation of viewpoints from leading …

Pitch is important for speech and music perception, and may also play a crucial role in our
ability to segregate sounds that arrive from different sources. This article reviews some basic …

The perception of music depends on many culture-specific factors, but is also constrained by
properties of the auditory system. This has been best characterized for those aspects of …

This chapter discusses models of pitch, old and recent. The aim is to chart their common
points—many are variations on a theme—and differences, and build a catalog of ideas for …