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The Intelligent Ear

On the Nature of Sound Perception

• By Reinier Plomp

• Price: $59.95
• Binding: Hardback
• Pages: 184
• Published by: Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates)
• Publication Date: 1st November 2001
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-3867-1

About the Book

Plomp's Aspects of Tone Sensation--published 25 years ago--dealt with the psychophysics of simple and complex tones. Since that time, auditory perception as a field of study has undergone a radical metamorphosis. Technical and methodological innovations, as well as a considerable increase in attention to the various aspects of auditory experience, have changed the picture profoundly. This book is an attempt to account for this development by giving a comprehensive survey of the present state of the art as a whole. Perceptual aspects of hearing, particularly of understanding speech as the main auditory input signal, are thoroughly reviewed.

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface. Introduction. The Perception of Single Sounds. The Perception of Multiple Sounds. Speech Perception 1: The Quest for Speech Units. Speech Perception 2: The Intelligibility of Fluent Speech. Hearing Research in Perspective.