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| Preface | |
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| The World We Hear, An Introduction | |
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| Hearing | |
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| Normal Human Hearing and Plan of the Book | |
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| Brief History of the Study of Hearing | |
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| Hearing and Science | |
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| Summary | |
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| Supplement | |
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| The Auditory Stimulus: Sound | |
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| Sinusoids, The Basic Sound | |
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| Vibration | |
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| Sinusoids | |
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| Frequency | |
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| Starting Phase | |
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| Amplitude | |
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| Damped Vibrations | |
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| Summary | |
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| Sound Transmission and Sound Propagation Sound Propagation | |
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| Pressure and Sound Intensity | |
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| Decibels | |
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| Interference | |
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| Sound Fields | |
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| Summary | |
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| Complex Sounds | |
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| Complex Stimuli | |
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| Transients | |
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| Beats and Amplitude Modulation | |
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| Square Wave | |
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| Frequency Modulation | |
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| Noise | |
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| Narrowband Noise, Envelope, and Fine Structure | |
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| Summary | |
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| Sound Analysis | |
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| Resonators | |
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| Filters | |
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| Nonlinearities | |
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| Sound and Its Analysis | |
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| Summary | |
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| Peripheral Auditory Anatomy and Physiology | |
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| The Outer and Middle Ears | |
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| Structure of the Outer Ear | |
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| Structure of the Middle Ear | |
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| Function of the Outer Ear | |
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| Function of the Middle Ear | |
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| Middle Ear and Inner Ear Impedances | |
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| Summary | |
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| Structure of the Inner Ear and Its Mechanical Response | |
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| Structure of the Inner Ear | |
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| Mechanical Response of the Inner Ear | |
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| Summary | |
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| Peripheral Auditory Nervous System and Hair Cells | |
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| Cochlear Potentials | |
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| Hair Cells, Stereocilia, Outer Hair Cell Motility, and Neural Transduction | |
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| Cochlear Emissions | |
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| Structure of the Auditory Nerve | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Neural Response and the Auditory Code | |
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| Function of the Afferent Auditory Nerve | |
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| Two-Tone Suppression and Other Nonlinear Neural Responses | |
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| Function of the Efferent System | |
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| Encoding of Frequency, Intensity, and Time | |
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| Summary | |
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| Auditory Sensation | |
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| Auditory Sensitivity | |
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| Thresholds of Audibility | |
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| Duration | |
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| Temporal Integration | |
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| Differential Sensitivity | |
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| Frequency Discrimination | |
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| Level/Intensity Discrimination | |
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| Temporal Discrimination | |
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| Temporal Modulation Transfer Functions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Masking | |
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| Tonal Masking | |
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| Noise Masking | |
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| Critical Band and the Internal Filter | |
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| Relationship Between Excitation Patterns and Critical Bands | |
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| Temporal Masking | |
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| Tonal-Temporal Masking | |
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| Masking Used to Measure Nonlinear Compression | |
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| Summary | |
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| Sound Localization and Binaural Hearing Localization | |
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| Precedence-Localization in Reverberant Spaces | |
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| Lateralization | |
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| Localization Versus Lateralization | |
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| Binaural Masking | |
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| Summary | |
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| Loudness and Pitch | |
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| Loudness | |
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| Pitch | |
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| Nonlinear Tones | |
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| Other Subjective Attributes of Sound | |
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| Summary | |
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| Auditory Perception, the Central Nervous System, and Auditory Disorders | |
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| Auditory Perception | |
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| Perception of Sound Sources (Sound Source Determination) | |
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| Speech | |
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| Music Perception | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Central Auditory Nervous System | |
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| Anatomy of the Central Auditory Pathways | |
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| Strategies for Studying the Central Auditory System | |
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| Cochlear Nucleus | |
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| Superior Olivary Complex | |
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| Inferior Colliculus | |
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| Auditory Cortex | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Abnormal Auditory System | |
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| Damage to the Auditory System | |
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| Effects of Noise on the Inner Ear | |
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| Ototoxic Drugs | |
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| Aging | |
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| Diseases and Infections | |
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| Heredity | |
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| Relation Between Inner Ear Damage and Hearing Loss | |
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| Hair Cell Regeneration | |
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| Auditory Central Nervous System Changes | |
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| Summary | |
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| Supplement | |
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| Sinusoids and Trigonometry | |
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| Using Sinusoids to Describe Acoustic Events | |
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| Nonlinearity | |
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| Vectors | |
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| Logarithms | |
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| Decibels | |
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| Fourier Analysis | |
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| Psychophysics | |
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| Classical Psychophysics | |
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| Theory of Signal Detection (TSD) | |
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| Direct Scaling | |
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| Matching Procedures | |
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| Neural Anatomy and Physiology | |
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| Anatomy | |
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| Neural Anatomy | |
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| Physiology | |
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| Neural Physiology | |
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| Electrophysiology | |
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| Techniques and Tools Used to Study Hearing | |
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| Signal Processing | |
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| Microscopy | |
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| Neural Stains and Markers | |
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| Electrophysiology | |
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| Imaging | |
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| Biophysical Techniques | |
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| Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics | |
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| Terms, Measurements, Equations, and Conversions | |
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| Anatomical and Physiological Measurements | |
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| Abbreviations and Symbols Used In the Text | |
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| References (Primary, Secondary, Standards) | |
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| Subject Index and Glossary | |