Human hearing, psychoacoustics

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Psycho-acoustics is a study of various sound response and interpretation effects that happen in the source-ear-brain-perception path, particularly the ear and brain.

There are various complex topics in (human) hearing. If you mostly skip this section, the concepts you should probably know about the varying sensitivity to frequencies, know about masking and such, and know that practical psycho-acoustic models (used e.g. for things like sound compression) are mostly a fuzzy combination of various effects.

Other psychoacoustic effects

Selective attention

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See also

• Wikipedia: Equal loudness contour
• http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/dB.html (Phons, Sones, dbA, dbC)
• http://www2.sfu.ca/sonic-studio/handbook/Phon.html (Phon)
• Wikipedia: A-weighing
• Wikipedia: ITU-R 468 noise weighting

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoacoustics

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_psychology

• Brian Moore, "Introduction to the psychology of hearing"

• H. Fastl, E. Zwicker, "Psychoacoustics: Facts and Models" (relatively mathematical)

Unsorted:

• http://is.rice.edu/~welsh/elec431/psychoAcoustic.html
• http://psysound.wikidot.com/
• http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/hearing.html Frequency response self-test (beware of aliasing sound cards, though)