Fundamentals of Hearing, Fourth Edition: An Introduction - Hardcover

Yost, William A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0127756957 ISBN 13: 9780127756950

Publisher: Academic Press, 2000

Synopsis

The Fourth Edition of Yost's successful introductory book on hearing, this edition updates and expands the fundamental facts about hearing. Fundamentals of Hearing is still the only non-edited book that covers sound, auditory anatomy and physiolgy, and psychoaoustics and auditory perception in one book at an introductory level.
An Instructor's Workbook contains 15 chapters, one for each in the textbook. Each chapter contains 12 problems and answers, suggested tracks form the ASA Audio CD-ROM (audio examples for understanding hearing provided by the Acoustical Society of America-this CD-ROM will not be included), suggestions for class exercises, and for some chapters, example figures and graphs.
The CD-ROM provided with the Instructor's Workbook contains a copy of all the figures in the textbook, as well as text files that can be loaded into any spread sheet. These files contain the basic data and plots used in the book, a toolbox of MATLAB routines (a math program of Mathworks, Inc., used by many people who study all aspects of hearing), both MATLAB and executable Windows 95 programs for a) generating sounds, b) a simulation of measuring a neural tuning curve, and c) running psychophysical experiments for discrimination and detection of tones in noise (both diotic and dichotic).

Key Features
* Approximately 25% new information
* Contains a new chapter, The Abnormal Auditory System, which replaces the chapter on Noise
* All figures redone
* Instructor's Workbook and CD-ROM also available
* Includes Website, with a Hearing Tutorial based on the book

About this title

From the Back Cover:

In its new Fourth Edition, Fundamentals of Hearing: An Introduction covers the subject of
hearing from sound to sensation, including the structure and function of the auditory system.
Written at an introductory level, and requiring a minimal background in math and science,
Fundamentals of Hearing is intended for students in fields concerned with sensory systems,
perception, the nervous system, human and animal communication, and speech and hearing
sciences and disorders. Fundamentals of Hearing will also assist any professional in the field
of hearing in finding key facts and data about the auditory system.

The new Fourth Edition offers sixteen chapters, with 25 percent new information, covering:
* The Auditory Stimulus
* Peripheral Auditory Anatomy and Physiology
* Auditory Perception of Simple Sounds
* Complex Sound Processing
* The Central Auditory Nervous System
* And, a new chapter, The Abnormal Auditory System
Six appendices cover:
* Sinusoids and Trigonometry
* Logarithms
* Fourier Analysis
* Psychophysics
* Neural Anatomy and Physiology
* Techniques and Tools Used to Study Hearing
Instructors: accompanying Instructor's Workbook and CD-ROM also available - contact your
bookstore or Academic Press for more information.

About the Author:

William A. Yost is Professor of Hearing Sciences, Adjunct Professor of Psychology, and Adjunct Professor of Otolaryngology at Loyola University Chicago. He is also director of the Parmly Institute and the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Minor.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0127756957
• ISBN 13: 9780127756950
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 349