<strong>Ecological Psychoacoustics</strong> outlines recent advances in dynamic cognitive andecological investigations of auditory perception and ties this work... » 

Ecological Psychoacoustics outlines recent advances in dynamic cognitive andecological investigations of auditory perception and ties this work to findingsin more traditional areas of psychoacoustics. The book illuminates some of theconverging evidence that is beginning to emerge from these traditionallydivergent fields providing a scientifically rigorous real world perspectiveon auditory perception cognition and action. In a natural listeningenvironment almost all sounds are dynamic complex and heard concurrently withother sounds. Yet historically traditional psychoacoustics has examined theperception of static impoverished stimuli presented in isolation. EcologicalPsychoacoustics examines recent work that challenges some of the traditionalideas about auditory perception that were established with these impoverishedstimuli and provides a focused look at the perceptual processes that are morelikely to occur in natural settings. Examines basic psychoacoustics froma more cognitive and ecological perspective Provides broad coverageincluding both basic and applied research in auditory perception Coherenceand cross referencing among chapters «