Sound & Hearing: A Conceptual Introduction

by Luce and R. Duncan Luce

Book Overview

The major aim of this book is to introduce the ways in which scientists approach and think about a phenomenon -- hearing -- that intersects three quite different disciplines: the physics of sound sources and the propagation of sound through air and other materials, the anatomy and physiology of the transformation of the physical sound into neural activity in the brain, and the psychology of the perception we call hearing. Physics, biology, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805813896
• ISBN13: 9780805813890
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"