How is the brain able to sort out complex mixtures of sounds? How do we relate these simultaneous lines together so as to hear the music as a coherent whole? And how are images of sound stored in memory and recalled? This study answers these questions from a broad persective. The text explores the nature of sound; the workings of the inner ear; neural mechanisms of hearing; our perception of complex sound patterns, pitch and timbre; and communication through speech.
- ISBN10 0716750635
- ISBN13 9780716750635
- Publish Date 1 January 1995
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 23 November 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Scientific American Library
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English