Auditory Neuroscience

<b>An integrated overview of hearing and the interplay of physical biological and psychological processes underlying it.</b><p>Every time we listen--to speech to music to footsteps approaching or retreating--our auditory perception is the result of a long chain of diverse and intricate processes that unfold within the source of the sound itself in the air in our ears and most of all in our brains. Hearing is an everyday miracle that despite its staggering complexity seems effortless. This book offers an integrated account of hearing in terms of the neural processes that take place in different parts of the auditory system.</p><p>Because hearing results from the interplay of so many physical biological and psychological processes the book pulls together the different aspects of hearing--including acoustics the mathematics of signal processing the physiology of the ear and central auditory pathways psychoacoustics speech and music--into a coherent whole.</p>