People unversed in technical terminology will talk about an audio system’s 'sound quality,' and what they mean is how good does the system sound to them and how ‘accurate’ is it. But what constitutes ...

Psychoacoustics is the study of sound perception and audiology 1. It is a branch of psychology associated with psychophysics, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience 2. When applied, psychoacoustics ...

Understanding psychoacoustics, how we perceive sound, can lead to better sound system designs as well as creative sound design. Let’s look at one psychoacoustic phenomenon—the precedence effect.

Psychoacoustics is the field pertaining to perception of sound by human beings. Incorporated within it are the physical interactions that occur between sound fields and the human head, outer ears, and ...

This collection seeks to advance our understanding of how sound is perceived and processed by biological systems, with a particular focus on the cognitive and psychological mechanisms underpinning ...

Ben Vida asks a lot of questions. In fact, asking questions — and rarely expecting to find an answer — might be the central tenet of the experimental composer’s voluminous body of work. Brooklyn-based ...

The discussion of localization so far has centered on locating a sound at a point in space. Real-world sources may be larger than point sources, and reverberation and diffuse ambiences are meant to be ...