In:
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Vol. 141, No. 5_Supplement ( 2017-05-01), p. 3824-3824
Abstract:
In the early 1900's, two scholars opened the door of psychoacoustics in Japan. Han'ichi Muraoka was sent to University of Strasbourg in 1878, where he studied physics under August Kundt and received a doctoral degree in 1881. He published his study of the discrimination threshold of Japanese-harp timbre in 1919. Matataro Matsumoto went to Yale University in 1896, studied psychology under Edward Scripture, and received a Ph.D. degree in 1899 with his thesis “Researches on Acoustic Space.” In the 1930s, several psychologists actively conducted psychoacoustical researches and two psychoacoustics textbooks were published. In 1936, the Acoustical Society of Japan was founded. Three years later, Shuji Yagi edited a book titled “Acoustical Sciences,” of which psychoacoustics occupied 23 pages out of 428. Psychoacoustical research, however, gradually became inactive until after WWII. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan was resumed in 1950 and several psychoacoustics textbooks were published in the 1950's. From around 1960, not only psychologists such as of Osaka University but also electrical engineers of Tohoku University, NHK-STRL, and NTT-ECL began psychoacoustical studies, particularly related to timbre, spatial hearing and speech perception. This movement signaled the second down for the current Japanese psychoacoustics; the fusion of psychology and technology.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0001-4966
,
1520-8524
Language:
English
Publisher:
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Publication Date:
2017
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1461063-2
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