Note: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Sound and the auditory system -- The nature of auditory stimuli -- Our auditory apparatus -- The outer ear and the middle ear -- Structure of the inner ear -- Neural structures and auditory pathways -- Mechanics for stimulation within the inner ear -- The auditory-acoustic paradox: excellent discrimination from a poor instrument -- Electrophysiological response of the cochlea and peripheral neural apparatus -- The resting potential -- The summating potential -- The cochlear microphonic -- Whole-nerve action potential -- Single-unit receptor potentials -- Single-unit generator potentials -- Action potentials of auditory nerve fibers -- Investigation of human cortical function -- fMRI -- PET -- EEG and MEG -- Suggestions for further reading -- 2 Spatial localization and binaural hearing -- Binaural perception of azimuth -- Minimal audible angle -- Binaural beats -- Detection of interaural delays for clicks and for complex sounds -- Contralateral induction -- Masking level differences -- Two types of temporal disparity -- Time-intensity trading -- Some cautions concerning interpretation of studies using headphones -- Importance of the pinnae in sound localization -- Room acoustics -- Auditory reorientation -- Estimates of distance from the source -- Sensory input and physical correlates -- Suggestions for further reading -- 3 Perception of acoustic repetition: pitch and infrapitch -- Terminology -- Classical pitch studies -- Masking -- Critical bands -- Comodulation and masking reduction -- Place theory of pitch -- Periodicity theory of pitch -- Schouten's residue pitch -- Pitch of inharmonic complexes -- Spectral dominance -- Complex tones and local temporal patterns on the basilar membrane -- Use of special versus model periodic stimuli. , Iterated noise segments as representative or model periodic sounds -- Pitch and infrapitch iterance -- Echo pitch and infrapitch echo -- Periodic signals with alternating polarity -- Pitches produced by dichotic interactions -- Ear dominance for perception of pitch -- Musical pitch and musical infrapitch (rhythm) -- Deviations from strict periodicity in the pitch range -- Some models for the pitch of complex tones -- Suggestions for further reading -- 4 Judging auditory magnitudes: the sone scale of loudness and the mel scale of pitch -- Sensory input and perception -- The history of loudness measurement -- Loudness judgments and their relation to auditory localization: the physical correlate theory -- 1. Equivalence of half-loudness and twice distance estimates -- 2. Loudness and the inverse square law -- 3. Effects of reverberation on loudness functions -- 4. Loudness of self-generated sound -- 5. A new physical correlate can result in a new loudness scale -- The mel scale of pitch magnitude -- Some conclusions and inferences -- Suggestions for further reading -- 5 Perception of acoustic sequences -- Rate at which component sounds occur in speech and music -- Identification of components and their order -- Identification of the order of components for extended sequences of unrelated sounds and for steady-state phonemes -- Identification of order within tonal sequences -- Limits of stream segregation as an explanatory principle -- Identification of order and verbal labeling -- Need for verbal labeling for serial order retention in memory experiments -- Identification of patterns without discrimination of order: global pattern recognition -- Extent of temporal mismatch permitting global pattern recognition -- Should practiced or unpracticed subjects be used in sequence experiments?. , A comparison of global pattern recognition with identification of the order of components -- Perception of tonal sequences and melodies -- Acoustic sequences as unresolved "temporal compounds -- Linguistic temporal compounds formed by repeating sequences of brief steady-state vowels -- Identification of components and their orders and global pattern recognition for dichotomous patterns -- Global pattern recognition in animals other than humans -- Conclusions -- Suggestions for further reading -- 6 Perceptual restoration of missing sounds -- Temporal induction -- Homophonic continuity -- Heterophonic continuity -- The roll effect as tonal restoration -- Durational limits for illusory continuity -- Reciprocal changes in inducer and inducee -- Differences in the homophonic induction of tone and noise -- Binaural release from temporal induction -- Temporal induction of dynamic signals -- Temporal induction of tonal frequency glides -- Temporal induction of speech: phonemic restoration -- Apparent continuity of speech produced by insertion of noise into multiple gaps -- Increase in intelligibility produced by insertion of noise into multiple temporal gaps -- Temporal induction in cats and monkeys -- Spectral restoration -- Masking and unmasking -- Suggestions for further reading -- 7 Speech -- Speech production -- The subglottal system -- The larynx -- The vocal tract and articulation of speech sounds -- Visual representation of speech sounds -- Intelligibility of sentences heard through narrow spectral slits -- Intelligibilities of passbands heard singly and together -- The protean phoneme -- Are phonemes perceptual units? -- The alphabet and the phoneme -- Illiterate adults cannot segment phonetically -- Ability to segment phonetically and reading ability are related in children -- Cues for identifying phonemes and characterizing letters. , Phonemes in speech are not perceived, but are inferred -- Restored" and "real" phonemes are perceptually equivalent -- Identification of syllables and words precedes identification of constituent phonemes -- Obligatory transformation of brief steady-state phonemes into syllables and words: the vowel-sequence illusion -- Implications of the vowel-sequence illusion for theories of aphasia -- Perceptual changes occurring during repetition of syllables and words -- Verbal and visual satiation -- Verbal transformations -- Identifying lexical neighbors using verbal transformations -- Dichotic verbal transformations -- The relation between production and perception of speech: organization above the lexical level -- Skilled storage and delayed perceptual organization of speech -- Speech errors in everyday life -- Syllable recognition by nonhuman species -- Suggestions for further reading -- 8 The relation of hearing to perception in general -- Multimodal perception -- Interaction of vision with senses other than hearing -- Interaction of vision and hearing in speech perception -- Perceptual resolution of conflicting visual and auditory information concerning speech -- Multimodal sensory control of speech production -- General perceptual rules and modality-specific rules -- 1. Sensory input is interpreted in terms of familiar causative agents or events, and not in terms of the manner and nature of neural stimulation -- 2. Perceptual changes occur during exposure to an unchanging stimulus pattern -- 3. Prior stimulation influences perceptual criteria -- Suggestions for further reading -- References -- Index.

Note: Front Cover -- Auditory Perception: A New Synthesis -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Sound andthe Auditory System -- THE NATURE OF AUDITORY STIMULI -- OUR AUDITORY APPARATUS -- THE AUDITORY-ACOUSTIC PARADOX: EXCELLENT DISCRIMINATION FROM A POOR INSTRUMENT -- ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE OF THE COCHLEA AND PERIPHERAL NEURAL APPARATUS -- Chapter 2. Spatial Localization and Binaural Hearing -- BINAURAL PERCEPTION OF AZIMUTH -- DETECTION OF LONG INTERAURAL DELAYS -- CONTRALATERAL INDUCTION -- MASKING LEVEL DIFFERENCES -- TWO TYPES OF TEMPORAL DISPARITY -- TIME-INTENSITY TRADING -- SOME CAUTIONS CONCERNING INTERPRETATION OF STUDIES USING HEADPHONES -- IMPORTANCE OF THE PINNA IN SOUND LOCALIZATION -- ROOM ACOUSTICS -- AUDITORY REORIENTATION -- ESTIMATES OF DISTANCE FROM THE SOURCE -- SENSORY INPUT AND PHYSICAL CORRELATES -- Chapter 3. Perception of Acoustic Repetition: Pitch and Infrapitch -- TERMINOLOGY -- PITCH -- PERIODIC SOUNDS AND LOCAL TEMPORAL PATTERNS ON THE BASILAR MEMBRANE -- MODEL PERIODIC STIMULI VERSUS SPECIAL PERIODIC STIMULI -- PITCH AND INFRAPITCH -- ECHO PITCH AND INFRAPITCH ECHO -- PERIODIC SIGNALS WITH ALTERNATING POLARITY -- PITCHES PRODUCED BY DICHOTIC INTERACTIONS -- EAR DOMINANCE FOR PERCEPTION OF PITCH -- MUSICAL PITCH AND MUSICAL INFRAPITCH (RHYTHM) -- SOME RECENT MODELS FOR THE PITCH OF COMPLEX TONES -- Chapter 4. The Measurement of Loudness and Pitch -- THE HISTORY OF LOUDNESS MEASUREMENT -- APPARENT LOUDNESS AND ITS RELATION TO AUDITORY LOCALIZATION: THE PHYSICAL CORRELATE THEORY -- THE MEL SCALE OF PITCH MAGNITUDE -- SOME CONCLUSIONS AND INFERENCES -- Chapter 5. Perception of Acoustic Sequences -- RATE AT WHICH COMPONENT SOUNDS OCCUR IN SPEECH AND MUSIC -- TEMPORAL ORDER IDENTIFICATION WITHIN EXTENDED SEQUENCES. , IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION OF ORDER: HOLISTIC PATTERN RECOGNITION -- CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 6. Perceptual Restoration of Missing Sounds -- TEMPORAL INDUCTION -- TEMPORAL INDUCTION OF SPEECH -- Chapter 7. Speech -- SPEECH PRODUCTION -- VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF SPEECH SOUNDS -- THE PROTEAN PHONEME -- ARE PHONEMES PERCEPTUAL UNITS? -- THE TEMPORAL COURSE OF SPEECH PERCEPTION -- SPEECH ERRORS IN EVERYDAY LIFE -- CHANGES IN SPEECH PERCEPTION DURING STIMULUS REPETITION -- EAR ADVANTAGES AND CORTICAL PROCESSING OF SPEECH -- PERCEPTION OF LINGUISTIC AND NONLINGUISTIC SEQUENCES -- Chapter 8. The Relation of Hearing to Other Senses -- MULTIMODAL PERCEPTION -- AUDITORY INPUT PERCEIVED AS TOUCH -- MULTIMODAL SENSORY CONTROL OF SPEECH PRODUCTION -- GENERAL PERCEPTUAL RULES AND MODALITY-SPECIFIC RULES -- PERCEPTUAL CALIBRATION OF SENSORY INPUT -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- About the Author.