Cover image for Music, cognition, and computerized sound : an introduction to psychoacoustics
Music, cognition, and computerized sound : an introduction to psychoacoustics
Title:
Music, cognition, and computerized sound : an introduction to psychoacoustics
Author:
Cook, Perry R.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1999]

©1999
Physical Description:
xi, 372 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
Language:
English
Contents:
The ear and how it works ; The auditory brain / Max Mathews -- Cognitive psychology and music / Roger Shepard -- Sound waves and sine waves ; Introduction to pitch perception / John Pierce -- What is loudness? ; Introduction to timbre / Mathews -- Hearing in time and space / Pierce -- Voice physics and neurology / Perry R. Cook -- Stream segregation and ambiguity in audition / Shepard -- Formant peaks and spectral valleys ; Articulation in speech and sound /Cook -- Pitch perception and measurement / Shepard -- Consonance and scales / Pierce -- Tonal structure and scales / Shepard --Pitch, periodicity, and noice in the voice / Cook -- Memory for musical attributes / Daniel J. Levitin -- Haptics ; Haptics in manipulation / Brent Gillespie -- Perceptual fusion and auditory perspective / John Chowning -- Passive nonlinearities in acoustics ; Storage and reproduction of music / Pierce -- Experimental design in psychoacoustic research / Levitin.
Added Author:
ISBN:
9780262032568
Format :
Book

CD-Rom